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January 11, 2025

Databases for Kids (At Home)
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Description missing for this image. With 5000+ interactive books, educational games, puzzles, and other learning activities, ABCmouse.com's award-winning online curriculum is an invaluable resource for young learners ages 2-7+. From Age of Learning Inc. Please create an account to use all content.
Description missing for this image. Brittanica School
A source for all grades (Pre-K-12) and all reading abilities. Available at three levels--elementary, middle, and high.
Description missing for this image. Axel Scheffler has illustrated a digital book for primary school age children, free for anyone to read on screen or print out, about the coronavirus and the measures taken to control it. Published by Nosy Crow, and written by staff within the company, the book has had expert input: Professor Graham Medley of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine acted as a consultant, and the company also had advice from two head teachers and a child psychologist. The book answers key questions in simple language appropriate for 5 to 9 year olds.
Description missing for this image. What did people eat, wear, use? What did they hope, invent, sing? Daily Life through History brings history up close by providing award-winning content in an authoritative and accessible database.
Description missing for this image. Explora for Kids & Teens
Elementary and high school students can look up articles and facts for research papers, classroom projects or homework from the world's leading magazines and reference books. See How To Use Video Here
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Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia
For students and adults alike, the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. The database contains various images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas. This database is updated annually.

Description missing for this image. Gale in Context: Middle School
Created specifically for middle-schoolers, Gale in Context: Middle School combines the best of Gale's reference content with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and much more. Students will find outstanding support to complete assignments in core subjects including literature, science, social studies, and history.
Description missing for this image. Gale in Context: Elementary
Offers elementary children a safe place to find answers to their questions, practice research skills, and explore a broad range of subjects like animals, arts and music, social studies, and more..
Description missing for this image. Hoopla for Kids is a discovery tool to find family appropriate content. Instantly read, watch and listen with your library card, from your desktop or the hoopla app on your device. To enable Kids Mode on the hoopla app or on the desktop, select the Kids setting on the blue bar on the top of your screen.
Description missing for this image. The Nassau Digital Doorway is an ebook and audiobook collection with thousands of children's titles to choose from. Items can be checked out with your library card using the Libby app and downloaded to smartphones, tablets or computers.
Description missing for this image. With NOVELNY New York State residents can find answers to any imaginable question by using their library.  NOVELNY is only one of many ways libraries organize the books, articles, and other information sources they hold.  NOVELNY makes all this information available to you – wherever you are.
Description missing for this image. Primary Search
Provides full text for more than 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.
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Proquest Coronavirus Research Database
A free health and medical research database for openly available content relating to the Covid-19 outbreak.
Description missing for this image. The TumbleBookLibrary is a collection of TumbleBooks (animated, talking picture books) with fiction, non-fiction and foreign language titles, Read-Alongs (chapter books with sentence highlighting and narration but no animation), TumbleTV which consists of pre-set playlists of a sequence of books, and Tumble Puzzles & Games.
TumbleBooks are created from existing picture books which we have licensed from children's book publishers and converted to the TumbleBook format.
(See How To Use Video Here)
Description missing for this image. The Tutor.com Learning Suite is a one-stop-shop for academic support for learners in kindergarten through intro-level college as well as adult learners. Learners can take practice quizzes and tests to identify areas in which they need to work, and connect with expert tutors in a one-to-one virtual classroom. Tutors are available 2:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m., seven days per week. (See How To Use Video Here)
Description missing for this image. Check out this tutorial to get help with Zoom and how to use it on all your devices.