Youth eResources

Digital education program featuring games, puzzles, and more. 

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A research database for beginner readers. Includes information on STEAM, biographies and animals. 

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Free online tutoring, writing assistance, and other learning tools for students of all ages. 

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Free online lessons, flashcards, learning strategies, practice tests, videos and so much more for learners of all ages. 

Designed for kids, Gale In Context: Elementary delivers trusted, age-appropriate digital content. Elementary students can learn about everything from animals and outer space to famous artists and favorite athletes. 

Gale In Context: Middle School contains citable content from magazines, newspapers, videos, and primary sources. Dive into science, social studies, history, literature, and more from National Geographic, Scholastic, NPR, NASA, and other citable sources.

Web and mobile library media streaming platform for audiobooks, comics, e-books, movies, music, and TV.

Mango offers a variety of foreign language courses for HPL cardholders, as well as English as a second language. 

Borrow e-books, audiobooks, and magazines through the Indiana Digital Library.

Providing information and tools to learn geared toward children, but are acceptable for all ages.

Sign language dictionary containing several thousand high resolution videos of American Sign Language (ASL) signs and fingerspelled word. 

Providing information and tools to learn geared toward children, but are acceptable for all ages.

Designed for preschoolers and students with tools and content that reinforce early childhood curriculum via short videos, read-aloud stories, printable activities, and matching and tracing games, among others.

The Hammond Public Library is also on YouTube! Check out our playlist for #HPLconnects you to Youth Services for book talks, storytimes, craft instructions and more.