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Kids & Teens

America's Story from America's Library
A special site maintained by the Library of Congress to teach kids all kinds of things about American history in an entertaining but educational format.

Colorin Colorado
A web site targeted at Spanish-speaking parents to help their children gain literacy skills. Viewable in English and Spanish. Informacion, actividades, y asesoria para padres de familia que hablan espanol.

FirstGov for Kids
Developed and maintained by the Federal Citizen Information Center. Provides links to Federal kids' sites along with some of the best kids' sites from other organizations all grouped by subject.

Games Kids Play
Find the rules for hundreds of playground games, verses for jump-rope rhymes, and much more.

Great Web Sites for Kids
The American Library Association's page of selected links for kids.

The Holiday Page
Find out the history behind many of our celebrated holidays.

How Stuff Works
Have you ever wondered how the engine in your car works or what makes the inside of your refrigerator cold? Then How Stuff Works is the place for you!

Kids Click!
A web search designed by librarians. Links to sites about current events, weird & mysterious things, reading, popular entertainment, and much more.

Parent Soup
A subset of the ivillage web site that offers articles, advice, and entertainment for parents.

Pauly's Playhouse
Features fun online interactive games and activities for children 3 and up.

PBS for Kids
Here you can find links to the PBS shows for kids, with information and activities.

Punky Doodle's Coloring Club & Funhouse
Full of games, puzzles, and coloring pages to print out and color.

Puzzlemaker
Discovery Channel School presents Puzzlemaker—a puzzle and games generation tool for teachers, parents and students. You can create and print customized word search, crossword, and math puzzles using your word lists.

SafetyEd International
A site devoted to advising parents, teachers, schools, and libraries about safety issues for kids when going online, and to educating children and teens realistically and positively about internet technology and safe use.

Teen Hoopla
An internet guide for teens, with book reviews and links to other sites.

Writing with Writers: Poetry
Younger students can learn about the process of writing poetry and about some of their favorite poets. Geared towards kids in grades 1 through 8.

Yahooligans
A web guide for kids, with links to favorite sites for kids.