Homework Aids

Teen-Focused Websites

Databases

Videogame Codes

Local High School Websites

Education/College

Books for Teens

Movies for Teens

Homework Aids

Student Resource Center – Gold
A useful database for students doing research on different cultures, literature, American/World history, science, or geography.

Biography Resource Center with Lives and Perspectives
Biographical fact searches on people’s lives, occupations, births, and more. Provides biographies on over 380,000 people.

Books & Authors
Create lists and rate books while using this resource to explore various books, genres, and authors.

History Resource Center: US
An historical database that allows users to search through American history by subject or person.  Timelines can also be found here.

A Chronology of US Historical Documents
Online legal documents for reading.

Books Toolbox
A list of over 50 sites that provide book reviews, book communities, sharing, and publishing. 

Government Information Online
A free national service providing its users with information from over 30 libraries.

Internet Public Library
An online library with aids for completing homework assignments, writing research papers, health, technological resources, and more.

For a listing of all of the Maywood Public Library's databases, please click here.

Teen Consumer Scrapbook
Consumer reports for teens on issues that are of interest to them.

Above the Influence
A web site that focuses on the pressures that teens must endure in their lives.

Exploratorium
With links to 18,000 different award winning web sites, Exploratorium presents its users with information on many various topics, such as science, weather, sports, and biology.

Great American Health Check
An interactive quiz on your health that can be customized for you.

How Stuff Works
A web site that explains how many forms of technology in our society function.

MoMa's Red Studio
A web site that presents many of the issues that are explored by the Museum of Modern Art in New York concerning working artists and modern art.

NASA Ozone Hole Watch
Learn about what NASA has discovered about the hole in the Ozone layer.

National Science Foundation Multimedia Gallery
A compilation of images and videos from projects done through the National Science Foundation.

Smithsonian Folkways
Hear music, poetry, and other audio recordings from around the world.

Video Jug
Short instructional videos on modern technology, such as how to protect your computer during an electrical storm, and how to download video onto your iPod.

You Think-But Do You Know?
A web site devoted to worldwide issues.

Game Stats.com
Lists of some of the more popular games, along with codes and previews of games yet to come out.

Cheat Code Central
Includes message boards, a newsletter, news on new games, and game shark codes.

Proviso West High School

Proviso Mathematics and Science Academy

Proviso: District 209

Nazareth Academy High School

Fenwick High School

Trinity High School

Next to Nothing: A Firsthand Account of One Teenager’s Experience with an Eating Disorder by Carrie Arnold
618.92/ARN

The Thought That Counts: A Firsthand Account of One Teenager’s Experience with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder by Jared Douglas Kant
616.85/KAN

Mind Race: A Firsthand Account of One Teenager’s Experience with Bipolar Disorder by Patrick E. Jamieson
616.89/JAM

Battlefield of the Mind for Teens: Winning the Battle in Your Mind by Joyce Meyer
248.83/MEY

Eight Stories Up: An Adolescent Chooses Hope Over Suicide by DeQuincy A. Lezine
618.92/LEZ

Young Adult Mental Health edited by Jon E. Grant and Marc N. Potenza
616.89/YOU

The Real Deal: Challenges- Stories About Disses, Losses, Messes, Stresses, and More (Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul) by Jack Canfield
158.1/CHI

Sports Injuries Information for Teens by Karen Bellenir
617.1027/SPO

I’m, Like, So Fat!  Helping Your Teen Make Healthy Choices About Eating and Exercise in a Weight-Obsessed World by Dianne Neumark-Sztainer
618.9285/NEU

Letters to a Young Brother: Manifest Your Destiny by Hill Harper
170.84/HAR

Letters to a Young Sister by Hill Harper
170.84/HAR

Drug Information for Teens: Health Tips About the Physical and Mental Effects of Substance Abuse edited by Sandra Augustyn Lawton
REFERENCE/613.8/DRU (Reference books always remain at the Library)

Scenarios USA: Compilation from 3 Scenarios USA (Firm)
DVD/DRAMA/SCE 494

Teens, Sex and Health: A Comprehensive Approach to Sexual Education featuring Kelly Chevalier, Bruce R. Kava, and Alex Moreno
DVD/EDUCATION/TEE 1361

Juno starring Ellen Page, Michael Cera, and Jennifer Garner
DVD/COMEDY/JUN 1042

Stuttering: Straight Talk for Teens narrated by David Wilkins
DVD/SPECIAL INTEREST/STU 668