Reference Shelf

Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

Atlapedia Online (http://www.atlapedia.com/) (6^th and up)

Encyclopedia.com (http://encyclopedia.com/l) (4^th and up)

FactMonster from Information Please Almanac (http://www.factmonster.com) (4^th and up)

Grolier Online Kids (4^th and up)
Online access to encyclopedia entries, magazine articles, pictures, websites and more! Includes Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia and America the Beautiful (US States information). (Remote access available for Warren Newport cardholders.)

Kids Click!  Web Search for Kids by Librarians (http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/)
(4^th and up)

Quotations (http://www.bartleby.com/99/index.html) (6^th and up)

Roget's Thesaurus (http://www.thesaurus.com) (http://www.thesaurus.com)  (6^th and up)

The Semantic Rhyming Dictionary (http://www.rhymezone.com) (6^th and up)

Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus (http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm)(4^th and up)

World Book Encyclopedia (http://www.worldbookonline.com) (5th and up)
The World Book Encyclopedia is now online. You can search or browse the encyclopedia by general category, by particular phrases or words, by places, or by type of content, such as pictures, sounds, or animations.

Language and Literature

Dr. Grammar (http://www.drgrammar.org/) (6th and up)

Elements of Style (http://www.bartleby.com/141/index.html) (6^th and up)

Online Literary Criticism Collection (http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/) (6^th and up)

Shakespeare Resources (http://www.wnpl.info/ReferenceDesk/TravelLeisure/Theatre/Shakespeare.htm) (6th and up)

Other Reference Tools

Currency Converter (http://www.oanda.com/converter/classic) (6^th and up)

Instrument Encyclopedia (http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/instrument/) (6^th and up)

Sample Bibliography (http://www.wnpl.info/kidspot/LangArts/samplebib.htm) (4th and up)