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NoveList Plus K-8
Novelist Plus K-8 will help you find fiction and nonfiction books for school projects as well as your next favourite book. This database is filled with excerpts, first chapters, and reviews of books specifically for kids in Elementary and Middle School. Browse lists of award winners, find read-alikes as well as which book comes next in a series. [EBSCO]
Librarian-recommended books
We Recommend: Favourite Picturebooks
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We Recommend: Novels for Tweens
Find more reading recommendations in the sections at the top of the page.
Try reading online
TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of TumbleBooks - animated, talking books for young children, tweens and teens.
Family Literacy Kits
Family Literacy Kits, filled with books (written in English and a non-English language) and toys, are for families who have English as their second language to be able to read to their pre-school children in their first language. See the complete list of kits in the catalogue.
Beacock: Arabic, Chinese, Khmer, Korean, Vietnamese
Byron: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese
Children's: Arabic,Albanian,English,Khmer, Kurdish,Portuguese, Serbo-Croation, Vietnamese
Cherryhill: Chinese,English, French
Eastwood: English, Portuguese, Vietnamese
Jalna: Arabic,Chinese, Hungarian, Kurdish, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish
Lambeth: Arabic, English, Portuguese
Masonville: Arabic, English, French, Korean, Spanish
Pond Mills: Arabic, English, French, Somali, Spanish,
Sherwood: Arabic, English, French, Somali, Spanish
Westmount: Arabic, Chinese, French