Jamestown High School School
   
   Jamestown High School
757-259-3600

 
3751 John Tyler Highway  |  Williamsburg, VA 23185  
 

 

Read, Write & Review

Books at JHS
Check out the New Books at the JHS Media Center.
Book Reviews

For a comprehensive collection of professional book reviews, use Amazon.com. You'll find reviews from School LIbrary Journal, Publisher's Weekly, Booklist, Library Journal, and more. Amazon also features reviews from readers--you can even add one of your own.

Teenreads Reviews features an alphabetical listing of book reviews written by writers, bookaholics and teens.

Read the current issue of Book Page, where you'll find monthly reviews of new book releases.

Book Ideas

Williamsburg Regional Library's BookWeb is a great search engine to help you find books. If we don't have it at LHS, find it at the public library.

What Do I Read Next? is one of Find it Virginia's student databases.

The American Library Association (ALA) developed this list of Books for College Bound students. It includes humanities, literature and language arts, science and technology, and social sciences books.

Authors
Authors on the Web lists the complete works of many popular writers.

Yahoo! has a great collection of links to authors divided into genres.
Public Domain Books
Authorama links to full-text literary works that are in the public domain.
Writing
WRITE IT is a Web site created by Scholastic. Here you can find writing tips, peer review, and online publication opportunities.
   

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