Online Encyclopedias and Databases
Encyclopedia Britannica
The well-respected Britannica...online
Kids Infobits
Kids Infobits offers great encyclopedia and magazine articles for many topics. Perfect for struggling readers.
Gale General OneFile - Student Edition
"InfoTrac Student Edition provides high school students with access to magazines, newspapers, books, and other reference content. The database offers audience-appropriate information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports, and more."
Gale General Science Collection
"General Science Collection provides access to scholarly journals and magazines covering the latest scientific developments. Key subjects covered by the database include biological sciences, computing, engineering, and technology."
Gale U.S. History Collection
"U.S. History Collection provides access to scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers. The database offers balanced coverage of events in U.S. history and scholarly work being established in the field."
Opposing Viewpoints in Context
This site offers terrific periodical articles showing a variety of different perspectives on many of today's controversial topics.
Digital Public Library of America
Single most comprehensive repository for primary sources.
Newsela
Offers great articles on a variety of subjects. Can choose from different lexile levels.
Google Books
Google offers several million books in digital form for free. Just type in the topic you are researching and start reading.
Marshall Cavendish / Epointplus
Fabulous novels as well as non-fiction for pleasure and research
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