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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]
 

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  •  All book reviews are linked to our catalogue so you may easily place a book you're interested in on hold.
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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