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Beyond the Library!

tHE mAGICAL WORLD OF LIBRARIES

Search for any book we have in print in our school library. You can find out if it’s currently available or checked out. If you sign in with your google account, you can place a hold, create reading lists, recommend books to others, and leave reviews. You can search for specific books and topics or browse the themed Collections.

The library will open to the public on June 12th! You can put materials on hold via the computer catalog using your library card number or call the library to ask for help. Call (413) 583-3408 x2 once you've put items on hold in order to schedule a pick up time.

For help from Youth Room staff, call (413) 583-3408 x3 or email hubbardyouthroom@gmail.com. Tell July and Olivia what you like and they can make suggestions.

INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORES

Bookshop.org

Support the independent bookstore of your choice with the convenience of Amazon. BookShop.org allows you to choose any independent bookstore to receive the profit from your purchase online and they will have everything you want shipped to your home.

Odyssey Bookshop

9 College St, South Hadley, MA (8 miles away)

A locally owned independent bookshop committed to offering a quality selection of affordable new, bargain, gently read, and electronic books, as well as gifts and educational items for customers of all ages and backgrounds.

High Five Books

141 N. Main Street, Florence, MA 01062 (15.2 miles away)

Your neighborhood go-to for graphic novels, middle-grade readers, and picture books, plus art kits + other creative supplies. We share our welcoming space with Art Always, an art school for children and adults, in business for the past 18 years.

Broadside Bookshop

247 Main St, Northampton, MA (12.9 miles away)

We're dedicated to good books, personal service and community involvement. Order through our site, pick up your books at the store or have them shipped directly to you or to someone else. Or come visit us in the store, where our knowledgeable staff will be happy to help you.

EBOOKS AND AUDIOBOOKS

is the online Young Adult community created by Simon & Schuster’s teen fiction arm. Each month, Riveted offers a new range of Free Reads. Most of these titles are “extended excerpts” of YA novels, but they also have a few full length novels and will also throw in a few full short stories from up-and-coming authors. And as a kicker, they offer a full free ebook to all new subscribers.

Read ebooks or listen to audiobooks from the public library's digital collection. All you need is your public library card number. Most of these can only be checked out by one person at a time, but there are some that are always available. Read on your Chromebook, phone, tablet, or ereader using the Libby app.

Right now, kids everywhere can instantly stream an incredible collection of stories, including titles across eight different languages, that will help them continue dreaming, learning, and just being kids.

All stories are free to stream - no account needed - on your desktop, laptop, phone or tablet. BMS students should look in the Teen, Tween, and Elementary sections. Yes, the Elementary section has things even 8th graders will like.

Epic is the leading digital reading platform—built on a collection of 40,000+ popular, high-quality books from 250+ of the world’s best publishers. It has ebooks and audiobooks that you can read on your Chromebook.

To read for free, your teacher must create an account and put you in their classes. A parent can also purchase access for a small fee.

The Boston Public Library offers free eCards to any Massachusetts resident over the age of 13. This eCard gives you access to all of their online resources, including eBooks and audiobooks.

Get a free BPL eCard https://www.bpl.org/ecard/

Any Massachusetts resident who has a BPL eCard has access to eBooks and comics through Hoopla, newspapers and magazines through PressReader, and audiobooks and magazines through RBDigital. All of these can be accessed through the BPL's website.

Hoopla is available with a BPL e-card.

It's an incredible resource with eBooks, comics, audiobooks, music, movies and TV shows!

All the content is simultaneous use, as well, which means you'll never see "unavailable." Download the free app or go to the site.


BookBub - ebook discounts and deals

Access thousands of free & discounted bestselling ebooks and sign up for alerts for new ebook discounts every day. To access this site and its thousands of available eBooks, you need to create an account, but it’s totally free. Once you’ve created an account, the site prompts you to pick your favorite genres so that it can provide the best reading recommendations. Not only does BookBub let you access plenty of free books online, but it also offers you great deals on bestsellers, alerting you when big-name titles are available online (for a limited time) for 75 percent or more off.

(Some of the sections, such as "Dark Romance & Erotica," may include mature subject matter or content that may not be appropriate for children under 18 years of age. If you are under 18 years of age you are not permitted to access such content).

COMICS

Webtoon is home to thousands of creator-owned content with amazing, diverse visions from all over the world. Get in on the latest original romance, comedy, action, fantasy, horror, and more from big names and big names to be - made just for WEBTOON. Available anywhere, anytime, and always for free. Most of it is appropriate for teens, but some of these comics contain more mature themes like violence and suicide. Usually if a comic is for a mature audience, it gets marked as mature.

(For ages 13+. If you are between 13 and 18, you may only use the Service under the supervision of a parent or legal guardian who agrees to be bound by the Terms of Service).





SELF-PUBLISHED FICTION

Wattpad is an e-reading website that connects a community of 80 million readers and writers. Original books are uploaded directly for the platform for users to read. You have to create an account to read the books and before you get attached to one book, know that there are some books you have to pay to read.

(Wattpad Services are only for people 13 years old and over).





PODCASTS

Use any podcast app to subscribe to and listen to podcasts. If you listen on a Chromebook, use the Google Podcasts app that you can find in the waffle menu on any Google page. All podcasts are free. Most of them do not include a maturity rating, so please choose carefully.

There are so many great podcasts for middle school that they need their own page.

To visit the old library website, go to bmsresearch.weebly.com