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Welcome to your Chico Country Day School Library Webpage!

This page contains reliable and useful educational links, as well as fun websites, for students to explore both on and off campus.
Your feedback is welcome (please see contact info at the bottom of this page).

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Library Schedule for 2011-12
Online Catalog Access!Top of Page
Wondering if we have the book you want to read? Want to see what's new in the CCDS Library? The online catalog allows you to search our library holdings, see what's new, and even place your own holds with your individual login... and so much more!  Please see Mrs. McCutcheon for your login information.

Check it out here!
Sites of the Month!Top of Page
  • California Learns Student Portal -- Resources for students including World Book, California Streaming, Calisphere, Thinkfinity, and more!  Ask Mrs. McCutcheon or your teacher for the password.        User ID:  chicocountry   Password:  eagles
  • Knoword -- Expand your vocabulary!  Try this addictive online challenge for work fiends and students trying to ramp up their vocabulary and spelling skills.
  • ALA Youth Media Awards -- "Each year the American Library Association (ALA) honors books and media for children and teens. Recognized worldwide for the high quality they represent, ALA awards, including the prestigious Newbery, Caldecott, Printz, and Coretta Scott King Book Awards, guide parents, educators, librarians and others in selecting the best materials for youth."
  • FreeRice -- Work on your vocabulary skills and donate rice at the same time!
  • SweetSearch -- A search engine for students.  Searches only the 35,000 Web sites that a staff of research experts and librarians and teachers have evaluated and approved when creating the content on findingDulcinea.
  • Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus - An online thesaurus and dictionary of over 145,000 words that you explore using an interactive map.
Author SitesTop of Page
  • Avi --  
  • Lynne Reid Banks  --  
  • Jan Brett- author and illustrator of Gingerbread Friends, Hedgie's Surprise, The Hat, The Three Snow Bears, and many more!
  • Eoin Colfer - author of the Artemis Fowl series, The Supernaturalist, The Wish List, and Half Moon Investigations, among others
  • Eric Carle - author and illustrator of so many books including the Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Grouchy Ladybug, Little Cloud, and Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do You See?
  • Jeanne DuPrau
  • Cornelia Funke - German author of Inkheart, Dragon Rider, The Thief Lord, Igraine the Brave, and more!
  • Neil Gaiman - author of Coraline, The Graveyard Book (Newbery Award for 2009!), Stardust, and The Sandman comic books
  • Jean Craighead-George    
  • Gail Carson Levine - author of Ella Enchanted, Fairest, Ever, Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg, Writing Magic, and more!
  • Lois Lowry - Two time Newbery Medal Winner, author of Number the Stars, The Giver, Gossamer, Anastasia series, The Willoughbys and many more!
  • Stephenie Meyer - author of the Twilight series
  • Dav Pilkey - funny author of Captain Underpants books, A Friend for Dragon, Dogzilla, Kat Kong, and Dog Breath!
  • Emily Rodda - Australian author of Deltora Quest books, Rowan of Rin, Fairy Realm, The Key to Rondo, and more!
  • Pam Muñoz Ryan - author of Paint the wind, Esperanza Rising, Riding Freedom, Nacho and Lolita, and Becoming Naomi León .
  • Dr. Seuss
  • Jon Scieszka - first National Ambassador of Young People's Literature and hilarious author of the Time Warp Trio books, The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Stupid Tales, Math Curse, Squids will be Squids, and much more!
  • Jerry Spinelli - author of Eggs, Maniac Magee, Stargirl, Wringer, and more!
  • Lemony Snicket - An "unpleasant" site for the Series of Unfortunate Events author
  • JRR Tolkien - Tolkien estate site for the author of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, and The Children of Húrin
  • Wendelin Van Draanen - author of Shredderman, Sammy Keyes, Flipped, and Confessions of a Serial Kisser
  • David Wiesner - Three time Caldecott winner, author & illustrator of Flotsam, The Three Pigs, Tuesday, Sector 7, Night of the Gargoyles, and more!
  • The Exquisite Corpse Adventure -- A fun progressive story, written by various authors, check back every couple of weeks for more of the story!
Books, Book Series, and Book Sites!!Top of Page
  • The 39 Clues -- The hunt has begun! Unlock the secrets of the world's most powerful family. Find the clues in books, cards, and online!
  • BooksForKidsBlog -- Read book reviews for young people of preschool to high school ages by a children's librarian with decades of experience in reading guidance.
  • Grimm Tales --    
  • Guys Read -- Find good books for guys!
  • Hank The Cowdog  -- by John Erickson.
  • The Lost Land -- by Susan Cooper.     
  • The PlanetEsme Plan: The Best New Children's Books from Esme's Shelf.
  • Seekers -- by Erin Hunter. For three bears from different worlds, the quest of a lifetime is about to begin!
  • Septimus Heap -- by Angie Sage. Enter the Magykal world of Septimus Heap.
  • Shur'tugal -- Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini. Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, and ?
  • Seussville  Explore the World of Dr. Seuss.
  • Three Cups of  Tea -- by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. Chico's Book in Common!   One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time.
  • Jim Trelease's Home Page -- Author of The Read Aloud Handbook. Find book lists and the weekly read aloud feature.
  • Warriors -- by Erin Hunter. Enter the world of Warriors, where warrior cat Clans roam and rule the wild!
  • Sugarquill -- Harry Potter
AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIESTop of Page
ALL ABOUT ASIATop of Page
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSTop of Page
ANCIENT EGYPTTop of Page
ANCIENT INDIATop of Page
ANIMALS OF THE WORLDTop of Page
ART AND MUSEUMSTop of Page
BELIEVE IT OR NOT!!Top of Page
BOOKS AND READINGTop of Page
GOING TO CALIFORNIATop of Page
California History Links
CHICOTop of Page
COUNTRIES OF THE WORLDTop of Page
FLAGSTop of Page
DINOSAURSTop of Page
THE GOLD RUSHTop of Page
JUST FOR FUNTop of Page
HALLOWEENTop of Page
A HEALTHIER YOUTop of Page
IMAGE SEARCHESTop of Page
MAGAZINES ONLINETop of Page
MATH: IT CAN ADD UP TO MORE FUN WITH THESE SITES!Top of Page
MUSIC, SWEET SWEET MUSICTop of Page
NATIVE AMERICANSTop of Page
PLAYS AND READER'S THEATRETop of Page
POETRYTop of Page

April is Poetry Month!
RESEARCH AND HOMEWORK HELPTop of Page
SCIENCETop of Page
SEARCHING SITES AND DATABASESTop of Page
  • SweetSearch -- A search engine for students.  Searches only the 35,000 Web sites that a staff of research experts and librarians and teachers have evaluated and approved when creating the content on findingDulcinea.
SPACE, THE FINAL FRONTIERTop of Page
STATE INFORMATIONTop of Page
LIVE WEBCAMSTop of Page
WEBQUESTSTop of Page
OUR WORLDTop of Page
FTO (For Teachers Only)Top of Page

This library webpage is maintained by:

Lesli McCutcheon
Teacher Librarian, MA Ed.
Chico Country Day School
102 West 11th Street
Chico, CA 95928
530-895-2650 ext. 233
lmccutcheon@chicocountryday.org

Last updated August 16, 2011
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