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CRICKET MEDIA COLLECTION* | eResources - ALL

E-Books Includes hundreds of e-books from renowned family publisher Cricket Media. It can help build strong literacy skills in students from grades pre-K to 8 by offering digital access to award-winning, short-form fiction and nonfiction titles. This unique e-book collection explores a wide range of subjects to help young readers explore and expand their worlds.

BRITANNICA SCHOOL ELEMENTARY* | eResources - ALL

Britannica School Elementary is a comprehensive source of informational text for younger learners pre-K to grade 5. It includes encyclopedia articles, images, videos, and magazine articles. There is a Britannica Fundamentals section for children Pre-K through grade 2.

BEANSTACK | eResources - ALL

Virtual Reading Challenges Participate in monthly reading challenges throughout the year on Beanstack! Sign up yourself and your whole family to complete fun activities and win prizes! Our annual SummerQuest and Winter Reading Challenges are also held on Beanstack. Download the Beanstack app to easily keep track of your reading and activities.

GALE IN CONTEXT: ELEMENTARY* | eResources - ALL

Elementary students in Kindergarten through grade 5 will find age-appropriate content covering a broad range of educational topics such as animals, arts, geography, health, literature, people, social studies, technology, etc.

BOOKFLIX* | eResources - ALL

Literacy for Pre-K to grade 3 Watch videos and read books about Animals and Nature, Earth and Sky, People and Places, ABC’s and 1, 2, 3’s, Family and Community, Music and Rhyme, Adventure, and more. Enjoy read aloud with words highlighting and interactive games. Some films and books are available in Spanish too!

POWER KIDS* | eResources - ALL

Pennsylvania’s Electronic Reference Library for Kids Chat with a librarian, find great pictures and facts for your papers and projects and more!

CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS* | eResources - ALL

Discover biographical and bibliographical information on more than 160,000 of today’s most influential authors.

NOVELIST K-8 PLUS | eResources - ALL

Readers’ Advisory Find your next read with Novelist K-8! Browse by genre, theme, author, or book reviews to find fiction and nonfiction books based on your personal interests.

BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLE IN THE UNITED STATES* | eResources - ALL

The Black Freedom Struggle resource is provided at no cost to the POWER Library by ProQuest. It features select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history. By centering on the experiences and perspectives of African Americans, it is hoped that this collection imbues the study of Black history with […]

GALE IN CONTEXT: MIDDLE SCHOOL* | eResources - ALL

Discover reliable and trusted information on a variety of topics to support middle school student research for government, U.S and world history, geography, literature, sciences, and social issues. Middle School offers cross-curricular content aligned to national and state standards, and presents material organized into a highly visual and topic portal approach to quickly find answers.