How to Borrow Books and Ebooks

SORA by Overdrive

You can borrow books through Sora by Overdrive. Borrow by either going to soraapp.com, or by downloading the Sora by Overdrive app on your phone or other device.

  1. Once in Sora, click Find My School.

  2. Find and click on Newport News Public Schools.

  3. Log in with Google

  4. Choose a book, look around the site, you can narrow your choices to Young Adult (YA) fiction, but everything there (Including the Wimpy Kid Books!) can be borrowed.

  5. Click on your book.

  6. Click Borrow (if it takes a long time, click the back arrow at the top, this seems to be a glitch and the book is check out to you).

  7. You have borrowed a book for 14 days!

  8. To Return or Renew- Go to Home, to the group of books at the bottom of the page (shelf icon), click it. Click options, choose one (you can send your book to your kindle app to read it too!).

  9. Below is a video on how to use the SORA app:



Destiny (Resuming in the Fall)

You can borrow books from Destiny and we will deliver them to your classroom, put them in the office for you, or meet you on Thursdays after school at curbside library for pick up.

  1. Go to the Warwick HS Library website

  2. Click on Access Follett Destiny

  3. Log in with your firstname.lastname. Your student number is your password.

  4. Find the book you'd like to borrow

  5. Put the book on hold.

We will get a notification that the book has been put on hold. We'll send you an email confirming pick up. To return the book, you can give it to your teacher or come drop it in the library drop box.