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Almanacs/Encyclopedias
 
many of these include:
 Fun Fact Finders and
 News for Teens/Kids

 

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Homework Help Page
Kids Zone
Teen Scene
To use these links outside of the library, have your library card number and PIN- the last 4 digits of your phone number.
ABC-CLIO       Click for details and links.
A collection of databases including: American History , World History - Ancient and Medieval Eras , World History - The Modern Era American Government, State Geography , United States at War: Understanding Conflict and Society and World Geography.
Facts For Learning        (Click here to search from outside a library.)
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eared for elementary and middle school students, it includes fun fact resources like The World Almanac for Kids (2006 online), Weekly Reader (grade 2 through Senior), maps from Maps.com, The Oxford American Children’s Encyclopedia, and The Wordsmyth Children’s Dictionary.   There is also a section covering Teacher Created Materials along with brain teasers, a picture gallery, and research tips.

 

 

Galenet  (Click here to search from outside a library.)
Biography Info Center, Gale Business Resources, Gale's Ready Reference Shelf, and Literature Resource Center.
Grolier Click for details and links
This resource includes:
America the Beautiful ,  Encyclopedia Americana , Encyclopedia Britannica, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, Lands and People, The New Book of Knowledge, Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre and  New Book of Popular Science.  These resources have a lot of good information for homework and for home-schoolers.  There are over 6,000 images available.  There are also Spanish-English and English-Spanish dictionaries.
SIRS Discoverer - (Click here to search from outside a library.)
An informative database of full-text articles, helps develop research, reading, writing, language and computer skills while making learning fun and intuitive for the young researcher. Children can do research, read stories, learn about important people, places and events, find fun projects to do, and much, much more.