Just For Kids - Databases

Kids' Databases

Most of these databases can be accessed from home using your Glenview Public Library card number as username. A few are available only inside the library and are marked accordingly.

Databases: By Subject By Title E-Journal Portal

	NEW Grolier Online Grolier Online is published by Scholastic Library Publishing, Inc., a division of Scholastic Inc. It includes five encyclopedia databases: Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, Amazing Animals of the World, Lands and Peoples, and The New Book of Popular Science.

	TumbleBook Library The TumbleBook Library is a collection of TumbleBooks (animated, talking picture books) TumblePuzzles, and TumbleQuizzes, as well as TumbleResources for teachers. TumbleBooks are created from existing picture books which we have licensed from children's book publishers and converted to the TumbleBook format.

	CultureGrams Online CultureGrams offers concise, reliable, and up-to-date country reports on 190 cultures of the world. It goes beyond mere facts and figures to deliver an insider's perspective on daily life and culture, including the history, customs, and lifestyles of the world's people.

	Live Homework Help Online tutors are available to help students from 4th grade to 12th grade and college introduction level. Subjects include: Math, Science, Social Studies and English, 2:00pm-10:00pm daily. En Español: Matematicas y Ciencias, domingo a jueves 2:00pm-10:00pm.

	Student Resource Center A fully integrated database containing thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage of over 450 magazines, newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips.

	Student Edition Formerly SuperTOM, this database is designed for high school students, with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

	Kids Search Search for full-text articles and pictures in this kid-friendly database especially for students in kindergarten through 5th grade.

	Searchasaurus A fun, colorful interface for students. Choose from "Primary Search" (for kindergarten through 5th grade) or "Middle Search" (for 6th grade through high school).

	Biography Resource Center The Biography Resource Center combines biographies from over 130 sources such as Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Historic World Leaders, Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists, Contemporary Black Biography, Religious Leaders of America, International Dictionary of Art and Artists, and Writers Directory, with full-text biographical articles from more than 265 magazines.

	Facts.com Facts On File World News Digest since 1940 and a live newsfeed from Reuters® to answer questions about events, people, issues, facts, and figures of the last 60+ years.

	Facts for Learning For elementary students, parents and educators seeking homework and reference information on a wide variety of topics. Includes books, reference tools and website links.

	History Study Center History Study Center provides digitized primary and secondary sources with documents and articles organized under widely-studied topics, with reference works, images, video clips and links to 2,000 Web sites.

	Issues and Controversies Issues and Controversies features up-to-date, in-depth and objective information on the most prominent and hotly debated issues of the day.

	Novelist K-8 Novelist K-8 contains materials for all K-8 grade levels and includes picture books, children's "chapter" books and young adult titles. It offers reading recommendations by reading level and reading tips for parents. Discover fiction titles that are popular with young readers as well as titles to use in the classroom. You can find stories that are set in a particular country for use with geography units, books about different cultures and relationships, as well as titles to help students develop their appreciation of literature.

	Today’s Science Today’s Science presents the latest scientific discoveries and the fundamental concepts that underlie them covering: health, the environment, technology, life science, physical science, earth and space science, and science and society.

	World Book Encyclopedia Designed for school-aged students, this encyclopedia contains every article from the 22-volume print set plus state-of-the art multimedia and editor-reviewed Web sites.

	Catalog Use the catalog to search for books, sound recordings, CD-ROMs, videos, and reference materials in the Glenview Public Library.