All About Books
What to Read Next!
Click through the slides to find a genre that appeals to you.
You can click on the images of the book covers to get more information about the books.
Check out some suggested titles from our former librarian, Ms. Kahn.
Need More Book Recommendations?
Use Fantastic Fiction to keep track of what books come next in your favorite series.
LitPick was created for teens and pre-teens to read, review and share what they think about books.
Author, James Patterson, created Read Kiddo Read to get you excited about books.
A Book and a Hug, created by avid book lover Barb Langridge, has lists of great reads.
Use Bookish has many lists of books by genre that may help you decide what to read next.
Register and join GoodReads to find good books and share the books you like to read.
A librarian in New York city writes an all book review blog called Reading Rants.
Find Digital Content for Free at the Jefferson Parish Library
Find ebooks and audiobooks at the Jefferson Parish Public Library
You must have a JPL library card to access materials online
Don’t have a library card? Register online for a temporary JPL library card if you do not have one.
Find More Free Access to Electronic Books and Audiobooks
Junior Library Guild is offering Quaran-Teen by Rex Ogle, an 11 episode webcast, that can be viewed in its entirety.
LoyalBooks (always free) Offers both ebooks and audiobooks that are in the public domain. You can download the audiobooks on an app for your phone.
SimonTeen publishers are offering free reads on their website.
AudioBook Sync offers free audiobook downloads yearly from May-July. Each week on a Thursday, two new books will be available. Download the Sora app on your device and select AudioBook Sync as your school. Sign up so that every week you will be alerted when the books are available.
Spotify has free audiobooks, but they can be difficult to find because there is not a specific genre for audiobooks. Also, you will want to listen to the books in order, and with the free Spotify App, the tracks are shuffled on your phone. Read this article from Book Riot that explains how to find audio books and how to make sure that you listen to them in order.
Find eBooks: For Free or to Purchase
You can read books purchased for a Kindle even if you don't own a Kindle. Download the app on your computer or mobile device. Purchase eBooks on Amazon, and then you can read on your own device.
Riveted from Simon Teen offers teen books to read online for free and lots more.
Bibliomania has 1000's of e-books (classics), poems, articles, short stories and plays to read online for free.
Project Gutenberg also has 1000's of titles that you can download to your device for free.
Manybooks.net has more than 29,000 eBooks for free.
Google Play has many titles you can download to your device.
Shop for eBooks under $5 in the Google eBookstore that you can add to your device.
Free audio books that you can download from the University of South Florida.
Free audio books and more from Open Culture, try the complete Chronicles of Narnia.
General Literature Links
10 famous literary characters based on real people from Mental Floss.
Create a Literature Map to find authors whose books are similar in style.
Book Page: Discover your Next Great Book is an online magazine all about books, check out the teen section.
Young Adult Literature Links
Take this quiz to find out which literary character you are.
Would you like to review YA books or read reviews written by other teens? Go to LitPick.
Get Underlined is a place for YAs to read, write, and connect.
Teen Ink is a teen literary magazine written by teens since 1989.
SLIMEKIDS is School Library Media Kids where you can find book trailers, book reviews, and games.
Get help from the Recaptains to catch up when a new book in a series is released.
Book series: RECAPS and Reviews blog to catch you up to date when you are ready to read the newest volume a favorite series.
Marvelous Manga and Awesome Anime
Read manga online at Manga Reader.
Find MegaTokyo published strips and join the forum.
Do you love anime? Try the Anime News Network.
Create your own manga at Face Your Manga.
Find reviews of manga for all age levels at No Flying, No Tights.
Myths and Legends from the British Isles.
Download Comics for free. All comics are from the 1930's to 1950's, the genre's Golden Age.