General Ready Reference Sites: 

Internet Public Library 

Librarians’ Index to the Internet (This link takes you directly to Ready Reference sources)

KidsClick 

Refdesk.com

Ready Reference (Lakewood Public Library)

Ready Reference on the Web (Chico High School)

Ready Reference (Cyberbee,  many appropriate for younger students)

  

Fact Books: 

Columbia Encyclopedia

Guinness Book of World Records

  

Almanacs and Yearbooks: 

Information Please Almanac 

Fact Monster

     Information Please kids’ version 

World Almanac for Kids

Old Farmer’s Almanac

 CIA World Fact Book 

The Calendar Zone

Multi Cultural Calendar

Virtual Perpetual Calendars

 

Handbooks

Cliff Notes

Spark Notes

Pink Monkey

Occupational Outlook Handbook

(the version for younger students is What Do You Like?)

 

 

Quotations

The Quotations Page

 Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations (1919)

 Quoteland

 Online Dictionary of Quotations

 

 

Directories

Addresses.com

AnyWho 

Peterson’s (College Resources)

 

 

Statistics Sources

Statistical Abstract of the United States

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Community Information by Zip Code

American Fact Finder

Census Scope

FedStats

GeoHive: Global Statistics

United Nations Statistics

Library of Congress: Portals to the Countries of the World

InfoNation

     United Nations statistics in a format usable for K-12 

 

Biographical Resources

Biography.com

Famous Birthdays

Biographical Dictionary

POTUS: Presidents of the United States

Biography Center

Distinguished Women of Past and Present

Encyclopedia Britannica Guide to Black History

 

 

 

Literary Criticism

IPL Literary Criticism

Voice of the Shuttle (Humanities Research)