Library Resource Links

Colorado Blue Spruce Book Award - Nominated Titles

World Book Online

Updated encyclopedias, current events, contests. Spanish version included. Use the username 'manhattan' and the password 'student' . Can be used from either home or school.

Citing Sources
Great resources for you to use to put your sources in MLA format:

Easy Bib
Citation Machine
OWL online Writing Guide

All teachers require students to cite their sources, or tell from where they got their information. All Manhattan students use the MLA style for citing sources. Also, all of the Boulder Valley High Schools use MLA style, so once you learn how to do it, you are home free! To the left are some great resources for you to use to put your sources in MLA format.

A great news source that gives you news from other countries.

A system to look for books in the large collection of the Boulder Public Library.
A huge source to look for infomation in the University's Library.
Great books for teens. Look for award winners, popular paperbacks and Teens' Top Ten!
This is an amazing resource for earth science resources. (DLESE stands for the Digital Library for Earth System Education). Resources are carefully chosen for scientific accuracy and effectiveness for teaching and learning.
Flaming Net is an award-winning teen book review site run by a 16 year-old Baltimore high school student and his physican dad. It's a site where kids review kids' books. Check it out!
No Flying No Tights
The original No Flying, No Tights is a graphic novel review site for teens.

There is also Sidekicks, a site devoted to all those kids graphic novels out there.

On the other end of the spectrum is The Lair, featuring graphic novels for older teens and adults.

Check it out - lots of great resources.
Newspaper, books, games and more .