• Homework Help Center
• Guides to Writing a Term Paper & Designing a Research Project
• English as a Second Language
• Plagiarism & Copyright
• Reading for Fun and Profit
• New Jersey recommends...
• Children's Books K-8
• Books for High School Students
• Award-winning Media for Young Adults

Q and A NJ
"We are a network of experienced New Jersey Librarians offering free live, interactive search assistance 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Q and A NJ is administered by the South Jersey Regional Library Cooperative, a state tax-funded service of the New Jersey Library Network...Because of the source of our funding, Q and A NJ is a service for New Jersey residents, New Jersey students, and New Jersey-related questions, only."

New Jersey State Library Cyberdesk
Research tools, including books in the NJ State Library's collection, New Jersey resources, government information, e-books, online databases, online full-text journals and more.

Hangout - Help with Homework
Study tools and subject sites with homework help for New Jersey students at all grade levels.

Homework Help
This excellent and comprehensive site was developed by HealthyNJ, a website on health and sickness from UMDNJ. This list has everything from-interactive Q&A sites, public library homework help sites, the Discovery Channel site, and topical sites, covering everything from history to science. A great place to start, in your quest for homework help!

The World's Best Homework and Student, Teacher/Parent Web Resource
This excellent site from Kid Info provides resources in popular subjects. There's lots of good links to American history-particularly the Revolutionary War and Colonial Times. Other subjects include computers, geography, geology, health and much, much more.

Raygor, Alton L. Procedure for Writing a Term Paper
A very useful and practical step-by-step guide to researching and writing a term paper.

How to Write a Term Paper
A thorough and readable guide to researching and writing a term paper from choosing a topic, through citing research sources and revising the draft paper.

Term Paper Research: Getting Started
Excellent and practical advise on selecting a good topic and on finding and selecting appropriate research resources. Applicable to students from junior high school through college.

How to Write Term Papers from McGraw-Hill/Dushkin Online
A comprehensive and readable guide for researching, writing and presenting a finished term paper.

Term Paper Guidelines - Simanek, Donald.
An excellent and unusual approach toward term paper writing and research that focuses on the student's ultimate goal to say something new about the selected topic. The author also stresses a readable style that will make the point clearly without awkwardness or pretension.

So You Have to Do a Research Project? Don't Hit the Panic Button. This Page is Here to Help!
A clearly written and useful guide that also links to software and activity pages available on the web, to help students from elementary through high school to develop and present a research project.

Style Guides
A comprehensive listing of guides for citing primary and secondary sources, from the Sussex County Library System in New Jersey.

Dave's ESL Café
"The Internet's meeting place for ESL- EFL Teachers and Students From Around the World."
The student section of this site includes a help center, help with pronunciation and idioms and student forums where ESL/EFL students can communicate with, and help, each other.

Copyright Society of the USA. Copyright Kids.
An interactive site where you can learn about copyright, get help with getting permissions to reuse other people's stuff in your projects, and more.

Plagiarism and Academic Integrity
This entertaining video explains plagiarism in a way that is useful for college or high school students.

Avoiding Plagiarism - Rio Salado College Online
A useful explanation with examples from Rio Salado College Online.

Avoiding Plagiarism - MacEwan Learning Resources Centre
A practical guide to writing papers without plagiarizing your sources.

Research Help: What is Plagiarism?
An easy to use guide from the University of South Alabama.

• New Jersey Recommends...

Garden State Children's Book Awards
The winners are chosen by a committee of the Children's Services Section of the New Jersey Library Association on the basis of literary merit and popularity with readers. The awards are given to both author and illustrator in four categories: "Easy to Read" as specifically designated by the publisher, "Easy to Read Series", Fiction and Non-fiction for younger children in grades 2-5. Because children vote for their favorite books, the committee works with titles published three years before the award. Also, teen books.

One Book New Jersey
One Book New Jersey recommends a book in several categories for everyone in New Jersey to read. Categories include young adult, middle grade and read to me. Include discussion questions and other books to read if you like the recommended book.

• Children's Books K-8

KidsReads
A place "for kids to find info about their favorite books, series and authors. Reviews of the newest titles, interviews with the coolest authors and special features on great books are our specialties. And for even more reading fun we have trivia games, word scrambles and awesome contests."

Spaghetti Book Club
"Book reviews by kids, for kids." Includes a "clubhouse" where students can post comments and share opinions about books, sponsored by participating schools. Participating schools in New Jersey include: Asher Holmes Elementary in Morganville, Roosevelt Elementary School in Rahway and Wildwood Middle School in Wildwood

Book recommendations from the Association for Library Service to Children:

Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal
The Wilder Medal honors an author or illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have made, over a period of years, a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children.

Newbery Medal Home Page
The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.

Caldecott Medal Home Page
The Caldecott Medal honors the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.

The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children's Video
The Carnegie Medal honors the producer of the most outstanding video production for children released during the previous year.

Pura Belpré Award
The Belpre Medals honor a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose works best portray, affirm, and celebrate the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.

• Books for High School Students

Book Recommendations from the ALA Young Adult Library Services Association:

Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers

Best Books for Young Adults

Outstanding Books for the College Bound

Alex Awards
The Alex Awards were created to recognize that many teens enjoy and often prefer books written for adults, and to assist librarians in recommending adult books that appeal to teens. The award is named in honor of the late Margaret Alexander Edwards, fondly called "Alex" by her closest friends, a young adult specialist at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore. She used adult books extensively with young adults to broaden their experience and enrich their understanding of themselves and their world.

Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal
Awarded annually to the author of the most distinguished informational book published in English during the preceding year.

• Award-winning Media for Young Adults

Selected Audiobooks for Young Adults

Selected DVDs and Videos for Young Adults