Comics Plus is your one-stop-shop for everything comics! With Comics Plus you have access to thousands of digital comics, graphic novels, and manga—including popular fiction series, like Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra, Big Nate, Bone, Disney Princesses, Geronimo Stilton, Stranger Things, Locke & Key, and American Gods, as well as nonfiction, like They Called Us Enemy.

You have access at school and at home. Every title is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for offline reading, AND you and your friends can all read the same book at the same time! You could even start a book club!

Login here with your ossu gmail address, then check out the videos below to learn how to use this great new tool!

Epic! includes ebooks, read-to-me books, and audiobooks by grade level. It's free for students to use with their class code during school hours, 7am-4pm, Mon.-Fri. You will need to be invited to sign up with a special code from your teacher (email them to get it), then you can access class collections, assigned books, and books you've chosen for free-reading. 

Epic! also offers Free and Unlimited (paid) versions for after school reading (after 4pm Mon.-Fri. and on weekends). Learn more here. 

Storyline Online is a children’s literacy resource featuring the world’s best storytellers (actors) reading books aloud. Each video includes an activity guide with lessons for K-5 students to do at home. 

VOOKS - a kid-safe online streaming library of read-aloud animated storybooks. 

Right now they are offering parents a one-month free subscription. Read more here.

Teachers may use Vooks for FREE (still seems to be free as of September 2022) and have the option to screen share with virtual students. There are lots of great accompanying resources for many of their books.

Unite for Literacy provides free early reader ebooks, including a read-to-me narration feature. Super easy to use and full of great content.

Harper Kids

Publisher Harper Collins created this YouTube playlist of some of their most popular picture books being read aloud.

100+ Free Video Read Alouds, a collection of read aloud videos compiled by the Indianapolis Public Library.

MackinVIA, named 2019 Product of the Year, is a multi-award-winning, digital content management system, providing easy access to eBooks, read-alongs, audiobooks, databases, videos and more. With just one login, users can view, utilize, and manage all of their digital resources. Further, MackinVIA allows simultaneous, unlimited access to multiple users on all platforms, and is mobile friendly. It is incredibly generous of them to continue to offer a sampling of their amazing resource to us for FREE, so I hope you enjoy using it. I think you'll find it pretty great! (02/21/25)

Everyone logs in here with user name: OSUESD and password: Learn

Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. "Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world’s great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks for you to enjoy." This is a great resource for discovering the classics! (11/22/21)