Youth Resources
Accelerated Reader Bookfinder is a web-based search tool that was created for parents, guardians, students, teachers, and librarians to search for appropriate Accelerated Reader books.
Perpetual calendar featuring songs, activities, book suggestions, and videos, supporting early literacy skills.
Explora Primary Schools is a trustworthy environment for students and educators in grades K through 5 to look up facts for class projects or homework.
Explora Secondary Schools is a far better alternative to websites and search engines for students in grades 6-12 to look up articles and facts for research papers or homework.
Gale In Context: Elementary (formerly Kids Infobits) is an easy-to-use digital resource featuring age-appropriate, reliable, curriculum-related content on a broad range of educational topics.
The easy-to-navigate INFOhio Early Learning Portal contains more than 50 websites and apps chosen and evaluated by educators and librarians with expertise in early learning and literacy.
The Ohio Web Library is an evolving collection of thousands of online publications and research resources provided by Ohio libraries to all Ohio residents.
Oxford University Press provides new comprehensive collections of in-depth, peer-reviewed summaries on an ever-growing range of topics in the humanities, social sciences, and science.
Primary Search provides full text for more than 70 popular magazines for elementary school research.
Access thousands of eBooks, audiobooks, and videos from your local library. Best-selling authors, new releases, classics and crowd-pleasers––your local public library’s digital collection has it all!
Early Learning by World Book is the premier online resource for preschoolers and children in the early elementary grades.
L'Encyclopédie Découverte is a full-featured, reference site for French-language beginners that is written at basic French reading levels.
The World Book Kids online encyclopedia features thousands of colorful illustrations, diagrams, and maps that enrich thousands of easy-to-read articles developed for elementary students.
World Book Online is an engaging, verified, and trustworthy digital resource for grades pre-K through high school.
This dedicated Spanish-language database contains videos, compare-and-contrast features, selected articles, and a visual dictionary.
World Book Student includes thousands of articles, learning resources, and research tools to meet the research needs of middle school students.