Mission Library

WELCOME TO MISSION LIBRARY

7am-3:30pm Monday-Friday, school holidays excepted

Email the librarian at sbloom@eusd.org at any time, or call x16851 from 7:30am-3:30pm Monday-Friday (except district holidays).

Book Contents Search Engines

• Amazon Advanced Book Search: look up a sentence or keyword in a book

• Google Books: preview a book, search within a book

Checking Out Books

• Accessing Ebooks about the Holocaust

• Audiobooksync: download 2 free teen audiobooks each week starting 4/29/21 using the free Sora app. Register your email address or number for texting using non-EUSD wifi and follow the other instructions at this link.

• Checking out electronic audiobooks and ebooks from Mission Library

• Checking out electronic books to read on your iPad from the Open eBooks Middle School Collection

• High Reading Level Fiction Books and Where to Find Them & Selected Open eBooks Titles by Reading Level

• Reading free Ebooks from ProQuest and Ebook Central

• Reserve hard and soft cover books from Mission Library for pandemic checkout

Database and Reference Resources

• BrainPOP

• Calisphere

• Dictionary, Thesaurus and Rhyming Dictionary

• Digital Public Library of America

• Encyclopedia.com

• September 11 related resources

Dewey Decimal System

• Learn to shelve nonfiction books using the Dewey Decimal System

Electronic Textbooks

• Electronic Social Studies Textbook Login Instructions

Evaluating Internet Sources

• The CARS checklist for evaluating internet sources

Events

• Anime Club: Thursdays after school in Mission Library when clubs are allowed to start up again

• Banned Books Week: 9/27/20 to 10/3/2020

• Book Fair: 12/2-12/9/22 in Mission Library

• Library Visits Schedule

• October 31 is All Hallows Read: author Neil Gaiman wants people to give away scary books for Halloween

• Student Textbook Return

Figuring out Zoom

• Troubleshooting Zoom (for students)

• When camera or microphone do not work

Free eBooks / eAudiobooks

• A Christmas Carol: Dramatic reading

• Animal Farm: ebook, audiobook from ESL BITS, for English learners

• BITS English Language Learning: listen and read at the same time

• Check out audiobooks from Mission's Library catalog

• Children's Digital Library: read in English translation or the original foreign language

• Diary of a Wimpy Kid book 1 on FunBrain

• Junior Library Guild free summer eAudiobooks

• Librivox: free public domain eBooks and eAudiobooks

• Open eBooks: ALL MISSION STUDENTS AND STAFF may log in to the Open eBooks app via Clever and access A COMPLETE MIDDLE SCHOOL LIBRARY

• Project Gutenberg: free public domain eBooks and eAudiobooks

• Read Aztec Empire, a well researched historical graphic novel series

• Should you read Midnight Sun? Here's what Stephenie Meyer has to say about it.

• The Sonny Bono Memorial Collection has free eBooks that the organizers believe are eligible for free public access under 17 U.S.C. Section 108(h) which allows for non-profit libraries and archives to reproduce...

• Wattpad Teen Fiction: Mrs. Bloom recommends The Atlantis Grail series for Hunger Games fans

Free: ProQuest's Homework Central, Teaching Books

• Free nonfiction eBooks from ProQuest

• Using Teaching Books to learn about authors and books

Free resources available during the pandemic

• Neil Gaiman reading from his novels Coraline and The Graveyard Book

• Read Shonen Jump and other middle school appropriate manga for free via the publisher’s website during the course of the pandemic

• Scholastic Magazine’s grade level appropriate resources about the coronavirus and Covid-19

• Stream Free Audible Audiobooks

iPads

• Accessibility

• Apple Classroom Problems

• Connecting to your hotspot with your iPad: video

• EUSD Status Page

• How to use your iPad as a Docucam

• iPad Activation - Printable Instructions - English

• iPad Activation - Printable Instructions - Spanish

• iPad Activation Slideshow in Spanish

• iPad Troubleshooting

• iPad won't charge? Keyboard won't work? Removing and putting the case back on may solve the problem

• Stuck apps that won't install

• Updates? Won't connect to internet?

iReady

• How do i-Ready Lessons Support Spanish-speaking English Learners

• i-Ready Fridge Tips (Spanish)

• i-Ready Video

• Powerpoint Presentation in Spanish about i-Ready

• ¿Qué es i-Ready?

• Using i-Ready results to find books

Learn a Foreign Language

• Chinese-Tools.com

• Japanese-Lesson.com

• Korean: Loecsen

Look up Reading Levels

• Lexile AR Conversion Chart

• Look up AR level

• Look up Lexile Level

• Using i-Ready results to find books

Mission Websites / Links

• Library Catalog

• Meet the Librarian

• Mission Middle School's homepage

• Mission's Novel Sets (staff can view)

• PowerSchool Student Portal

• Watch Mission Television

• Welcome Back Assembly 9/23/20

Newspapers

• New York Times Online: Mission no longer subscribes but you can still read a few free articles per month

• Smithsonian Tween Tribune: Read news articles written at your lexile level. Click on the level you prefer.

Other Libraries

• Escondido Public Library

• Escondido Public Library: how to sign up for online services card

• Escondido Public Library: Libby app for eBooks and eAudiobooks

• Escondido Public Library Upcoming Events

• Palomar College Library has an Econdido Center on East Valley Parkway

• San Diego County Library System

Podcasts

• Book Club For Kids: book discussion podcast for middle schoolers

• Brains On! science podcast

• Mouthful: Young adults discuss stop and frisk, eating disorders, gender identity, etc.

• Old Time Radio Reasearchers Group Library

• Radio Rookies: teen podcasts about the challenges of teen life

• Radiolab: explores scientific topics (Mrs. Bloom's favorite)

• Storycorps: Individuals tell their life stories

• The best TED talks for students

• WNYC's Radio Rookies: stories created by teens

• Youth Radio: produced by teen journalists

Read Alikes

• #1 Read Alikes

• Book Browse Read Alikes

• Literature Map: find authors similar to your favorite author

• Read alikes from GoodReads

• Your Next Read

Recommended books

• Arab American Book Awards honors books written by and about Arab Americans and has a Children/Young Adult Category

• Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature honoring and recognizing individual work about Asian/Pacific Americans and their heritage

• Caldecott Medal and Honor Books 1938-present

• Common Sense Media's list of Award Winning Books for Teens

• Coretta Scott King Book Awards given annually to outstanding African American authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults that demonstrate an appreciation of African American culture and universal human values

• Jane Addams Peace Association award recognizing children's books of literary and aesthetic excellence that effectively engage children in thinking about peace, social justice, global community, and equity for all people

• Newberry Medal and Honor Books 1922-present

• NPR's Top 100 Teen Books

• Pura Belpré Award for Latino/Latina authors whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth

• Rainbow Book List - GLBTQ Books for Children and Teens

• Schneider Family Book Awards honoring an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.

• School Library Journal's Top 100 Must-Have YA Books

• Sibert Medal awarded annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book published in the United States in English during the preceding year

• The Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award honors authors and illustrators who create literature that depicts the Mexican American experience

• YALSA's Great Graphic Novels for Teens

Recommended eBooks / eAudiobooks

• Free eBooks and eAudiobooks on NPR's Top 100 Teen Books List

• Librivox audiobooks and eBooks recommended by Mrs. Bloom

• Project Gutenberg eBooks and eAudiobooks by reading level recommended by Mrs. Bloom

Rosetta Stone

• How to use Rosetta Stone

• Rosetta Stone problems with iPads

Summer Reading Programs

• Barnes and Noble Summer Reading Program

• Scholastic Summer Reading Program

Teachers

• Embedding videos in a document or slide

• Voice Amplifiers

Apps

• Create your own apps with MIT's App Inventor

• Scholastic Book Fairs App

• YALSA's Teen Bookfinder App

Book Trailers

• Book Trailers for books in Mission Library's collection

Middle Grade and Young Adult Authors' Websites

• Avi

• Tamora Pierce

Standards

• C3 Social Studies Standards

• Lexile Reading Level Conversion Chart

• Model School Library Standards for California Public Schools

• Native American Studies Model Curriculum

• Next Generation Science Standards

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