Students K-12

Animated classic storybooks introduce early learners to the delights of reading while sparking curiosity, creating a natural springboard into the paired nonfiction text for deeper discovery.

Encyclopedia content plus multimedia, timelines, world data analyst, country comparison, and the Britannica blog.

Encyclopedia content for all ages plus multimedia, timelines, world atlas, country comparison, quotations, and primary sources.

Encyclopedia content for all grade levels plus multimedia, timelines, world atlas, country comparison, and primary sources.

Get help with your class assignments using Explora™, a kid-friendly interface from EBSCO, now available at your library. Learn about endangered species, famous musicians, space exploration, and more!

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Did you know that your library offers a fun, easy-to-use tool that can help you complete research and classroom assignments?

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Comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

Subscription purchased by the Metropolitan Library Service Agency (MELSA).

Encyclopedia, magazine, and journal articles, plus primary sources, images, video, and more for middle and high school students. Includes the InfoTrac Student Edition database. An excellent place to start gathering material for your History Day project.

A middle school-appropriate database of reference works, biographies, magazine and journal articles, primary source documents, and multimedia.

Formerly Homework Rescue, HelpNow is a FREE online tutoring service.

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Anoka County Library
Carver County Library
Dakota County Library
Hennepin County Library
Scott County Library
St. Paul Public Library
Washington County Library

Subscription purchased by the Metropolitan Library Service Agency (MELSA).

Popular elementary school magazines as well as encyclopedias and newspapers written for kids, plus an image collection of photos, maps, and flags.

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Popular high school magazines as well as encyclopedias, newspapers, primary source documents, and an image collection. Included in Explora Teens database.

Popular magazines, biographies and historical essays, primary source documents, and reference books for middle school students.

Pro vs. con essays that present multiple sides of current or controversial issues. Plus magazine and newspaper articles, primary sources, and more related to those issues.

Popular elementary school magazines as well as encyclopedias and dictionaries written for kids, plus an image collection of photos, maps, and flags.

TeenBookCloud is a curated database of e-books and other digital content for Middle Schools and High Schools, as well as Public Libraries.

The growing collection features over 1000 titles, including student-favorite Graphic Novels, enhanced e-books with full audio narration and highlighted text, classic literature, national geographic videos, and more! TeenBookCloud supports a wide range of readers’ interests and levels and an AP English section makes hundreds of curriculum books available to readers at the click of a button!

TumbleBookLibrary is a curated database of children’s e-books that has over 1100 titles for grades K-6, and includes unique animated, talking picture books, read-along chapter books, National Geographic videos, non-fiction books, playlists, as well as books in Spanish and French. Plus, the collection features Graphic Novels – a student favorite!

A collection of math stories which combines animation, narration, and sound to create a compelling and enticing story book for students of all ages.

The books are all accompanied by supplementary materials such as lesson plans, educational games, plus quizzes in order to test and track progress.