www.worldreading.org
Send your readers off with a challenge: to submit as many of their own book reviews as they can to this site, which features hundreds of searchable book reviews written by kids. However, remember to tell parents that students' first names, ages, and hometowns are collected on this site.

www.co.fairfax.va.us/library
Click on “Good Reading” to access an impressive archive of recommended reading lists. The booklists for children include “Harry Potter Alternatives,” “Library Heroes and Heroines,” and “Multicultural Fiction.” Each entry is annotated, which makes finding the reviewed titles a breeze.

www.bookadventure.com
While corporate motivational reading programs abound, what makes Sylvan Learning's Book Adventure noteworthy is its emphasis on reading as its own reward. Most of the prizes students can register to win are reading-related, such as books, bookmarks, and educational CD-ROMs. This is a great program to recommend to your reluctant readers — it's easy, free, and all online.

www.teachersandfamilies.com/open/parent/parenting.html Y
ou might want to include this URL in an end-of-the-year newsletter —parents can click on “Reading” to access a large collection of links to support their children's reading skills. This site is great for parents who want to introduce kids to the library, but aren't necessarily active library users themselves.

www.pshouston.org/haisln
This site is a good choice for students looking for summer reads. Although the lists here include only brief annotations, they contain well-chosen, high-interest suggestions for grades K–12. A PreK list is helpful for even the youngest summer readers.

www.reading.org/choices
Parents will surely want copies of the informative PDF booklists available through the International Reading Association. In addition to recommendations based on a national poll of teachers and students, the handouts feature advice for reading aloud, activities for readers at every level, and tips for sparking a lifelong love of books.

www.rif.org/educators/advicetips
We know it's fundamental to keep students reading over the summer-but how can teachers help when kids are out of the classroom? Go to this site and click on “Preventing Summer Reading Loss” for a wealth of helpful tips and suggestions, such as combining reading with another favorite summer activity: baseball.

www.childrensbooksonline.org
To combine summer reading with a fun history lesson, send your students to this fascinating Web site, which features a large collection of digitized antique children's books. While the format of the site makes it difficult to read some of the text, the beautiful illustrations would be a great basis for a book-themed CyberHunt.

 
Kathy Schrock (www.kathyschrock.net) is the administrator for technology at Nauset Public Schools, in Orleans, Massachusetts. This article was originally published in the May/June 2004 issue of Instructor.