Reading and Book Sharing

Reading and Listening

Accessing FREE Audio and E-books

Vermont Schools Shared Digital Collection

This can really be your first stop. It's a great resource for many, many e-books and audio-books. Lots of popular titles and authors here. Borrow a book, or place a hold if someone else already has it checked out. Log in using your CSD Net ID (firstname.lastname) and your network password. You can browse the whole collection or check out specific lists such as the GMBA nominees.

Need suggestions for what to read? Check out this video...

Green Mountain Library Consortium

Another great source for thousands of e-books and audiobooks (middle grade, YA, and adult) - this is available through the Burnham Memorial Library. Browse by "collection" or simply search up a title or author in the search field. You will need to log in with your Burnham Memorial Library card, or fill out this form to gain access to the Burnham's digital collections!

Audible.com

Audible.com has made a selection of audiobooks available for free for the duration of school closures. You can see all that's available here...and start listening!

But wait, there's more...

Additional options for ebooks and audiobooks can be found on here: Audiobook/E-book page including links to Teen Book Cloud, Lit2Go, Loyalbooks, and more.
Want to hear some stories or excerpts of novels read by the authors themselves? Check out these videos of authors reading books.
Are graphic novels what you're looking for? Check out this great list of awesome webcomics and start reading today!

Green Mountain Book Award

Read and Vote today!

Voting is open for the Green Mountain Book Award. This year you can offer your vote and feedback on every book that you read from the 2019-2020 list! Just fill out this fun Google form when you finish one of the books. The organizers of the award will compile the results from every form submitted to determine this year's GMBA winner! The deadline for voting is May 26th.

AND...the 2020-21 list of nominees has been announced. Find and read/listen to all of the available books on Sora (sign in using your CSD netID and password).

Book Recommendations

Book Talk Videos with Ms. Binder

Ms. Binder book talks La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman - see the video here! See below for videos of Ms. Binder's book talks for

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (4/11)
The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert (4/26)
The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani (5/6)

Want to submit your own book talk? It's easy, just follow this link to get to our book talk Flipgrid, login with your school email, and record your own book talk by clicking on the big green button!

Book Recommendation Resources

See the book recommendations page for a way to get a personalized suggestion from Ms. Binder, or for a range of links to book lists and recommendation sites.
You can also check out theses themed book lists prepared by Ms. Binder. Many of the books on these lists can be found as e- or audio- books in the Vermont Schools Shared Digital Library (Overdrive).

Something Fun...

LeVar Burton Reads!

Did you all know that LeVar Burton (a.k.a. Mr. Reading Rainbow) has a podcast in which he reads books to us?!?! I just discovered it and, um, it's amazing. The best part is that in addition to his usual podcast of grown-up books, he's doing live Twitter readings of YA books specifically every Wednesday during this COVID-19 time. Here's a link to LeVar Burton reading from Jason Reynolds' book of short stories, Look Both Ways.

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