Children's Links

• AR BookFinder This site is provided to students, parents, teachers and librarians by Renaissance Learning, Inc., the company that provides the Accelerated Reading (AR) program in our local schools.

  AR BookFinder allows users to search for a book included in the AR quiz list by title, author, reading level and interest level. Users of this site will find the reading level and point value of specific books. Use this site to create lists of book titles in a desired reading level range.

READ ON THE WILD SIDE! CHECK OUT THESE FUN & INFORMATIVE SITES.

• ADVENTURES OF HERMAN: AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SQUIRMIN’ HERMAN, THE WORM
  http://urbanext.illinois.edu/worms/index.html
• ASPCA’S ANIMALAND
  http://www2.aspca.org/site/PageServer?pagename=kids_home
• DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE – KIDS 
  http://www.kidsplanet.org
• FUN WITH VERMICOMPOSTING — NIEHS
  http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/worms.htm
• HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS
  http://www.humanesocietysil.org
• ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES
   http://www.dnr.state.il.us/education
   http://www.idnrteachkids.com/interactive   
• NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC KIDS:  AMAZING ANIMALS
  http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Animals
• NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION – KIDS
  http://www.nwf.org/kids
• NATIONAL ZOO 
  http://nationalzoo.si.edu
• NATIONAL ZOO LIVE ANIMAL CAMS
        Twenty Live Animal Cams at:
        http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/WebCams
• SECOND NATURE WILDLIFE
  http://www.secondnaturewildlife.org
• SEAWORLD – KIDS
  http://www.seaworld.org/fun-zone/index.htm
• ST. LOUIS ZOO 
  http://www.stlzoo.org
• WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY – KIDS
  http://www.kidsgowild.com

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Play this on-line vocabulary game and earn free rice for the hungry. Improve your vocabulary, read faster and understand more while helping to end world hunger. With each right word choice, 20 grains of rice are paid for by sponsors advertising at the bottom of the vocabulary screen. Sponsors donate to the UN World Food Program to help end hunger.