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Britannica Escolar Online This link opens in a new window For native Spanish speakers, bilingual students, and students learning Spanish. Includes Primaria for elementary and Secundaria for middle school.
Britannica School - Middle This link opens in a new window More challenging content and unique features support students in Grades 6-8. Articles, primary source documents, e-books, maps, and videos help students analyze and evaluate multiple sources of evidence.
Career Preparation This link opens in a new window Prepare for a career exam, explore occupations, and improve workplace skills here.
eBook K-8 Collection This link opens in a new window Ebooks covering topics such as agriculture, American history, anthropology, education, geography, history of the Americas, language, leisure, literature, recreation, science and technology.
Explora for Middle Schools This link opens in a new window Explora combines results from encyclopedias, magazines, biographies, and more. For students and educators.
Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia This link opens in a new window Features over 25,000 informative segments of the encyclopedia.
Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new window Find contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues. Content includes viewpoints, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites.
Grades 4-8 Educator Resources This link opens in a new window Elementary and middle school teachers: Supplement classroom instruction with curriculum-aligned materials in math, reading, writing and social studies.
Middle Search Plus This link opens in a new window Full-text database providing 175 popular middle school magazines and 380 reference e-books covering subjects such as history, current events, science and sports plus thousands of primary source documents and videos.
NoveList This link opens in a new window Novelist is an electronic readers' advisory resource that assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles. In includes 90,000 full text reviews, over 36,000 subject headings and a complete spectrum of searching options, including searching by title, by author or simply by describing pertinent plot details.
TeenBookCloud This link opens in a new window TBC is a collection of videos and chapter books in categories which include: Ebooks (Shakespeare, poetry, non-fiction, science, history, geography, etc.), Read-Alongs, Graphic Novels, Videos (from National Geographic!), and Audio Books.
TOPICsearch This link opens in a new window Database of 90,000 full-text articles from diverse sources to explore current events, social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics frequently discussed in the classroom.
TumbleBookLibrary This link opens in a new window K-6 children's ebook database.