Kanji help requested.

[*Laurelindo*]

I've recently started attending a Japanese course. While the teacher said we'd cover all of hiragana and katakana quite quickly, she noted that we will not be able to cover all kanji this year. So I was wondering, EoFF, if any of you know where I can buy a good book - an exercise book, or dictionary - that will help me learn my kanji? Links to any online shops are very welcome.

The comics "Kanji de Manga" are pretty good at teaching Kanji, and show short comic strips where the Kanji are given context.

You really should not expect to learn all necessary Kanji the first year, as there are almost 2000 of them (and yet this is only about 4% of all the existing Kanji!).
Instead, start with learning the basic grammar and pick up Kanji compounds and words as you encounter them in sentences.
If you have Japanese font support on your computer then this is a wonderful translating tool:

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1C

Learning Kanji will take a long time, but you will eventually get acquainted with the small parts (radicals) they are made of, and start remembering two-three of them rather than tons of strokes.