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www.shmoop.com

This is an interesting web site for students and teachers.  The website provides study materials for selected literature, poetry, and U.S. history topics.   Below is part of a press release Shmoop sent out:

"We're Shmoop, a new educational website for high school and college students. A bunch of us (mostly Ph.D. and Masters students from Stanford and Berkeley) have worked on this for the past year-and-change. We opened our doors recently, and we're itching to ask you for your 2 cents, shekels, whatever.

Check out Shmoop: http://www.shmoop.com 
(New!) Shmoop for Teachers and Librarians: http://www.shmoop.com/teachers 

Praise for Young Shmoop
"Best of the Internet" - PC Magazine, Jan. 2009
Librarians' Internet Index (lii.org) picked Shmoop as a "website you can trust."
 http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/27395
School Library Journal wrote a glowing review of Shmoop:
 http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334/post/1980037798.html "

Shmoop is not connected with nor endorsed by this web site nor the Portland Library. 
We are providing this information as a matter of interest.