Local Community Organizations

• Assistance League of Flintridge
  (summer school, drama)
• Community Prevention Council
• Crescenta-Cañada YMCA
• La Canada Flintridge (City Website)
• La Cañada Flintridge Public Library
• La Cañada Valley Sun
• Community Center of La Canada
• Small Book of Big Issues
• La Cañada Kiwanis Club
• La Cañada Rotary Club

Articles of Interest

• "Preventing Perfectionism in Children" by Joan Franklin Smutny (National PTA website)
• "A Nation of Wimps" in Nov./Dec., 2004 issue of Psychology Today
• Bullying Article by Dr. Roy Mayer. As seen in Feb. 18, 2005 Intercom.
• "What Teachers Hate About Parents" article in Feb. 21, 2005 issue of Time Magazine.
• Backpack Article From WebMD
• CNN Money Best Places to Live:
  La Canada Flintridge
• Disaster Preparedness Checklist from RedCross.org

Parenting Resources

Movie & Media Reviews

• CommonSense Media.org
• Kids-In-Mind
• Plugged In Online
• Grading the Movies
• Screenit.com
• Film Values
• NY Times Family Movie Guide
• Teach With Movies

Advocacy

• California State PTA
• CA State PTA - Advocacy
• Child & Family Web Guide
  (parenting resources,
  compiled by Tufts University)
• EdSource Online (CA Education Issues)
• Ethics Project
• Families First's Ten Resolutions for Parents
• Family Watchdog (see where offenders live near you)
• FlyLady.com (organizing)
• GoCityKids (travel)
• Mothers Against Drunk Driving
• No Name Calling Week
• Super Size Me
• Roadmap to Healthy Foods in Schools
• Asbestos in the Public Schools

Almanacs

• AlternaTime
• CIA World Factbook
• Daily Almanacs
• Earth Calendar
• Infoplease.com
• Time and Date
• World Flag Database
• World Time Server

Biographies

• Biographical Dictionary
• Britannica Biographies
• Infoplease Biography Search
• Forbes.com People Tracker
• Twentieth Century Authors

Dictionaries

• Acronym Finder
• American Heritage Dictionary
• British National Corpus
• Encarta World English Dictionary
• Idiom Connection
• Lexicool
• Oxford English Dictionary
• Roget’s Thesaurus
• Rhyming Dictionary
• Synonym Dictionary

Encyclopedias

• Encarta Encyclopedia
• Columbia Encyclopedia
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Encyclopedia Mythica (Myth/Folklore)
• Encyclopedia Smithsonian
• Artcyclopedia (Artists/Artwork)
• Nolo Legal Encyclopedia
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Mathematics Encyclopedia
• McGraw-Hill Science Encyclopedia
• Hyperhistory Online
• Encyclopedia of Psychology
• New Georgia Encyclopedia

General Research

• Academic Info Reference Desk
• Best Info on the Net Reference
• DeskRef
• Digital Librarian
• Infomine
• KnowPlay
• LibDex
• Librarian’s Index to the Internet
• LibrarySpot
• Martindale’s Reference Desk
• Merlot
• RefDesk.com
• Reference Collection at Bartleby.com
• ReferenceDesk.org
• Research It
• Search-It-All
• Virtual Reference Collection
• Virtual Reference Desk
• Xrefer
• World eBook Library

Journal Article Databases

• Directory of Open Access Journals
• PubMed Central
• Highwire Press
• Google Scholar
• MSN Live Academic
• Sage Publications
• Action BioScience
• Public Library of Science
• Journal of Applied Physiology
• Oaister
• Academic Database List

Literature

• Bartleby.com
• Cliff’s Notes
• Gutenberg Project
• Internet Public Library
• Literary Criticism
• Literature.org
• Norton Anthology of English Literature
• The Pulitzer Prizes
• Shakespeare - The Complete Works
• Sparks Notes - Literature Study Guides
• Teens Read Too

Social & Economic Issues

• DocuTicker
• Pew Internet & American Life Project
• Pew Research Center
• RAND Corporation
• Urban Institute

Statistics

• Statistical Abstract of the United States
• Bureau of Economic Analysis
• U.S. Economy at a Glance
• U.S. Bureau of Criminal Justice Statistics
• Statistical Abstract of the United States
• U.S. Census Bureau
• FedStats
• NetFactual (Internet Statistics)
• Statistics - Government Documents

Style Manuals

• American Heritage Book of English Usage
• A Guide for Writing Research Papers - MLA
• Strunk’s Elements of Style
• Yale Web Style Guide
• APA Cheat Sheets

Yearbooks

• Calendar Zone
• Today’s Calendar
• UNESCO Statistical Yearbook
• UK 2002 Official Yearbook
• Yearbook of Experts & Authorities

Miscellaneous

• LA County Library On-line Tutor
• Helping Your Child With Homework
• Best History Web Sites