CLCD: Children's Literature Comprehensive Database
CLCD offers book reviews, thematic lists, award listings, and literary curriculum tools for grades PreK-12.
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Digital Library of Illinois
Use DLIL, or the Libby app, to download Overdrive ebooks, eaudiobooks, and magazines to your personal devices. Kindle books are also available.
Explora Public Libraries
Whether completing research for a school project or just looking to satisfy curiosity about a topic, Explora helps students find reliable information on thousands of topics covering a wide range of subjects.
Hoopla Digital
Hoopla digital media service allows you to borrow movies, music, audiobooks, ebooks, comics, and TV shows to enjoy on your personal devices.
Kanopy
Kanopy offers streaming films for all ages, including acclaimed independent films, educational content from The Great Courses and PBS, and classic films from The Criterion Collection.
Literary Reference Source
This full-text literary database covers all genres and time periods. It includes thousands of synopses, critical essays, book reviews, literary journals and author biographies, plus full-text classic novels, short stories and poems.
Novelist K-8 Plus
Novelist K-8 offers suggested reading lists, book reviews, discussion guides, and other tools for primary and middle grade readers.
Tumblebooks
TumbleBook Library offers over 1100 titles for grades K-6, including animated, talking picture books, read-along chapter books, National Geographic videos, nonfiction books, and books in Spanish and French.