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39 Clues
What would happen if you discovered that your family was one of the most powerful in human history? What if you were told that the source of the family's power was hidden around the world, in the form of 39 Clues? What if you were given a choice, take a million dollars and walk away, or get the first Clue? If you're Amy and Dan Cahill, you take the Clue, and begin a very dangerous race.
Activity TV
Activities for kids and parents to do together that include jewelry making, magic, cartooning, origami, cooking and a variety of craft projects.
Arcademic Skill Builders
Arcademic Skill Builders are online educational games that offer a powerful approach to learning basic math, language arts, vocabulary, and thinking skills.
Artemis Fowl
Home of the popular Artemis Fowl series of adventure stories by Eoin Colfer.
Barbie.com
This site is based on the Mattel line of BarbieĀ® dolls. Explore fashion fun, the storymaker, create your own music mix or make your own cards and posters in 'Play n' Print'.
Between the Lions
Accompanying the new PBS children's reading series Between the Lions, is this Web site which offers a full set of interactive stories and games for kids learning to read and write. The site changes weekly to keep things interesting!
Boerner Botancial Gardens
Boerner Botanical Gardens offers many educational programs for families and children to stimulate interest and develop an appreciation and understanding of horticulture, gardening and the environment.
Bratz
Bratz - the girls with a passion for fashion. Includes activities, games, music and more.
Cartoon Network
This site brings you all the games and information for your favorite cartoon characters. It includes games based on the Power Puff Girls, Scooby Doo, Batman and many, many others.
Dav Pilkey's Extra Crunchy Website-o-Fun
Fun games based on Dav Pilkey's many characters. Easy versions for preschoolers.
Disney Channel
Enjoy free and members-only features, activities, games, auditorium chats and shows created for Disney fans of all ages. The site includes information on Disney music, Disney T.V. shows, including Lizzy Mcquire, and Disney videos.
Dragon Ball Z
Use the official Dragon Ball Z site to find out about all your favorite good and bad guys and read all about their adventures past and present.
EA
Advanced Spanish language gaming page.
Festival City Symphony
Delighting audiences for more than 75 years with casual, family-friendly classical concerts for all ages including Pajama Jamborees, a series of three free classical "pops" concerts, each one hour in length, that are geared to children.
Funbrain
Lots of educational games to improve spelling, reading and math.
Funschool
Learn and have fun at the same time with activities for typing, playing educational games, coloring, and more for preschoolers to six graders!
Harry Potter Books
Use this official site to find out all about Harry Potter and the author, J. K. Rowling.
Hasbro
Games for all ages including Spider Man, G.I. Joe, Iron Man, Star Wars and Clue.
J.K. Rowlings Official Site
Find out all the news about Harry Potter books and movies straight from the author's mouth.
Jan Brett
4,182 pages of free activities, coloring pages, and projects featuring the art of Jan Brett.
JigZone
Assemble a jigsaw puzzle on the internet using this site, choosing from over 200 puzzles of varying difficulty and a Featured Puzzle of the day.
Kids WB!
This is the WB Television network site featuring Pokemon, Men in Black, Batman and the rest of the WB characters. Kids WB! also includes the WB T.V. show times.
Kidscom
Over 20 games including Grillin' & Chillin', Superhangman and the Eliminator can be found at Kidscom, a Milwaukee-operated Web site.
KoKone
Easy games in Spanish.
Lemony Snicket
If you know anything about Lemony Snicket, you know that a website called lemonysnicket.com is unlikely to be a pleasant experience. Here you will find startling videos, troublesome activities, and an overwhelming amount of evidence concerning the mysterious Lemony Snicket and his chronicles of the Baudelaire orphans
Math Playground
Math Playground is an action-packed site for elementary and middle school students. Practice your math skills, play a logic games and have some fun.
Math Slice
Math games and worksheets for all ages.
Merrian-Webster's Word Central
Merriam-Webster's word game page includes Jumble Kids a word jumble game and Robo-Bee and BIGbot which are spelling and usage games involving synonyms and antonyms.
MFL Games
Using an English language menu this website provides Spanish language games designed to help you learn Spanish.
Mr. Young's Bouncy A
A collection of online activities sorted by subject area and topics.
Neopets
NeopetsĀ® is the greatest Virtual Pet Site on the Internet. With your help, we have built a community of over 60 million virtual pet owners across the world! Neopets has many things to offer including over 140 games, trading, auctions, greetings, messaging, and much much more. Best of all, it's completely FREE!
Nick Jr.
Games, stories and music activities invite kids to have fun again and again. Featured shows are favorites such as Little Bear, Maisy, Kipper, Franklin, Blue's Clues, Little Bill, Dora the Explorer and Oswald.
Nickelodeon
This is the official Web site for Nickelodeon TV show information, hot games, cool jokes and Nickelodeon celebrity gossip. Rugrats, Hey Arnold, Kablam!, Rocko, Kenan & Kel, All That! & Nicktoons are just some of the features
NIEHS Kids' Pages
Hundreds of brainteasers, riddles, quizzes, illusions, palindromes and more.
NoveList K-8  MPL Special Link
A subset of the full NoveList database, NoveList K-8 is specially designed for children and teen readers. Produced by EBSCO, this database includes author biographies, recommended titles, books in series, and book cover art images. Teachers & parents can subscribe to two special newsletters found here: NoveList School News and NoveList RA News. Provided as part of Wisconsin's BadgerLink program.
Library subscription. Available for use within City of Milwaukee libraries and by remote access to City of Milwaukee library cardholders.
Number Munchers
Play the classic number munches game of multiples.
Ologyworld
Home of the ology pages based on the famous books including Dragonology, Wizardology, Pirateology ect.
One More Story  MPL Special Link
Hear a book! See a book! Read a book! One More Story is an online library of children's classic and contemporary literature. Included among the over 50+ featured titles are such popular books as Crow Boy, Mouse Paint, and Pete's a Pizza. Through a simple point and click process, children can choose a book, see the illustrations and listen to the book out loud while following along as each word is highlighted. The guide is a bookworm and music accents the charming presentation - kids will want to come to the library for their personal storytime to read these books over and over again!
Library subscription. Only available for use within City of Milwaukee libraries.
Para Ninos
This Spanish Language Web site is for children. Online Games (Juegos), Stories (Cuentos), Science (Ciencia), Art and Activities (Arte y Actividades), Songs and Rhymes (Canciones y Rimas) and Magazines (Revistas) are available. This site was created and is maintained by the Multnomah County Library.
PBS Kids!
Coloring pages, T.V. show theme music, games and the joke machine will keep kids coming back to this site. The PBS Kids gang includes Barney, Arthur, Clifford, Dragon Tales, Teletubbies, Zoom, Zoboomafoo and more!
Quiz Hub
Learning quizzes that help students enhance their knowledge of English, foreign languages (French, German, Italian, Spanish), math, science and the social studies.
Read Kiddo Read
Great books web page for kids of all ages hosted by author James Patterson.
Sanrio
The official home page of Hello Kitty contains games, puzzles, art center and e-cards.
Scholastic's The Magic School Bus
Based on the award-winning book, TV and video series about a wacky science teacher named Ms. Frizzle who takes her class of enthusiastic, inquisitive students and playful sidekick, Liz the lizard, on educational field trips in her magically transformable bus. The site contains an art gallery, games and information about Magic School Bus T.V. shows and books.
Sesame Street Games
Let Elmo and friends teach you about numbers, letters and shapes in these early level games. Sorting and dot-to-dot games are also included.
Sesame Street Stories
On-line stories with Elmo, Grover and their friends from Sesame Street.
Seussville University
Enjoy this site which offers "lots of good fun that is funny" while learning basic reading, math, science, and reasoning skills. Seuss characters will serve as your guides.
Sports Illustrated for Kids
Sport articles, scores, games and other sport related fun.
Spot
Full of games and activities which entertain and educate featuring Spot the dog. Helps children to develop basic literacy and numeracy skills. Also includes advice and resources for parents and teachers.
Stop Bullying Now
Short animated stories about how bullying affects different characters and how they learn to deal with it.
Storyline Online
Actors read picture books aloud in streaming audio/video.
Storyplace
On-line stories and activities for pre-school and elementary students.
TeachingBooks  MPL Special Link
TeachingBooks is a multimedia resource center that generates enthusiasm for books and reading by providing easy access to authors, illustrators and other book resources all in one place. Included are original, in-studio movies of authors and illustrators, book guides with activities for the library and classroom, audio excerpts of book readings for grades PreK-12, pronunciation of author names by the authors themselves and links to author websites. Provided as part of Wisconsin's BadgerLink program.
Library subscription. Available for use within City of Milwaukee libraries and by remote access to City of Milwaukee library cardholders.
TVO Kids
An Ontario website that provides engaging activities for children ages 3 to 8 that links directly to TVOntario, an educational public television broadcaster.
Up To Ten Kids
Games and activities for kids ages 6 - 10 including puzzles and races.
Washington Learning Systems
Free and reproducible infant-totter language and early literacy activities for parents and their children in English and Spanish.
World of Victor - a Whole World for Toddlers
A website specially designed to make children ages 2-4 familiar with multimedia while discovering nature and animals. Games, a gallery, coloring, songs, and lots of activities allowing any child to develop an imagination and learn while having fun!
Y8.com
Y8.com is a directory of thousands of free flash games for kids. Many are educational.
Yahooligans! Games
All kinds of games including sports, movie, TV, arcade, card, word and trivia.
Zona Latina
A link page to many Latin American Spanish language sites for kids including television stations, cartoons, magazines and more.

 
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