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Book Collection Nonfiction: Elementary School Edition (Login required - click here)
    Informative abstracts and searchable full text for more than 1,290 popular nonfiction books. The database includes high interest titles on animals, weather, holidays, Native Americans, United States, Canada, biographies, civics and more.

Book Collection Nonfiction: High School Edition (Login required - click here)
    Informative abstracts and searchable full text for more than 2,440 popular nonfiction books. The database includes high interest titles on careers, health, ethnicity, disabilities, technology, biographies, music, science, history, civics and more.

Book Collection Nonfiction: Middle School Edition (Login required - click here)
    Informative abstracts and searchable full text for more than 3,100 popular nonfiction books. The database includes high interest titles on careers, health, ethnicity, disabilities, technology, biographies, history, science, women, civics and more.

Elementary School Research - Kid Search (Login required - click here)
    Primary Search contains full text for more than 70 popular, elementary school magazines. Additionally, Primary Search includes the Encyclopedia of Animals, and features the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, which provides easy-to-read encyclopedic entries written specifically for kids. This database also provides the American Heritage Children's Dictionary, 3rd Edition from Houghton Mifflin, and an Image Collection of 400,972 photos, maps and flags.

Elementary School Research - Searchasaurus (Login required - click here)
    Searchasaurus is an exciting and easy way for young researchers to experience online searching. It is an animated interface with a dinosaur theme that encourages young researchers to enhance and develop basic search methodologies.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (Login required - click here)
    This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

High School Research - MAS Ultra (Login required - click here)
    This comprehensive database, designed specifically for high school libraries, contains full text for more than 500 popular, high school magazines. Full text is also available for 85,670 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents and more than 360 reference books (including the Columbia Encyclopedia, the CIA World Fact Book and World Almanac & Book of Facts).

Middle School Research - Middle Search Plus (Login required - click here)
    Middle Search® Plus contains full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays. Additionally, Middle Search Plus contains primary source documents including Essential Documents in American History, reference books including the Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia and American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition from Houghton Mifflin, the Encyclopedia of Animals, and an Image Collection of over 400,000 photos, maps and flags.

Points of View Reference Center (Login required - click here)
    A full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides 250 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument),counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide.

Science Reference Center (Login required - click here)
    A comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full-text science-oriented content. Designed to meet every student's science research needs, Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources.

World Book (Login required - click here)
    Includes World Book Online For Kids, World Book Online Info Finder, World Book Online Reference Center, World Book Discover, Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos and Gran Enciclopedia Hispánica

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