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=**Best Websites for Teens By Diane Markley **=

What is the best way to get teens to read? This is the question on educator's minds. How can we compete with the internet and/or video games? Using the internet to "hook" teens into reading is ideal. The websites today are fun. They allow the user to interact with the website and to see what books other teens are reading.

**Idea for Starting a Book Club

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Start a Book Club at your high school based on summer reading. Many of these titles can provoke interesting --- and spirited --- conversations. Maybe add Book Club to your current list of clubs at school. Keep in mind here that the goal is to have fun reading. ([])

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Health Website for Teens Teens can find out information about the following topics: -Your body -Your Mind -Sensual Health -Food and Fitness -Recipes -Drugs and Alcohol -Expert Answers -Disease and Conditions -Infections -Schools and Jobs -Staying Safe -En Espanol (all the above topics in Spanish) []

//FOR **BOYS ONLY!!!**//



A great website designed for boys that include books that would interest young men. []

FOR GIRLS ONLY

[] A website for girls to see what books are popular with other teen girls.

[] A website for teen girls to read book reviews, to share their creativity and to offer their opinions on literature.

Websites For All Teens!  []  A website that offers teens a place to check out current authors, books, fun, buzz and news related to their everyday life.

[]- A website that lets students to activate their minds by perfoming tasks like, designing a cell phone, perfoming virtual hip replacement, evaluating a crash scene, work with simple machines and more!

[] - Book blog written by a teenager as she reads new books she posts her opinion of that book. [] A website for young people to explore new vocabulary words and how they are used in literature.

Top Picks for Teen Books <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">[] <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;"> A website to show teens what books other teens have choosen as award winning.

<span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #0000ff; display: block; font-size: 210%; text-align: center;">Our Jobs as Educators

As eduators it is our job to try to offer students of all ages resources to help them realize how great reading can be. By using the resources available on the internet to "hook" students into the joy of reading is essential. Teens are very easily influenced by their peers, so by offering them the websites to see what other teens are reading can help them discover the joy of reading!

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