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Reading Recommendations
Reading Recommendations
Diverse Book finder aspires to be a go-to resource for librarians, educators, parents, book creators, and publishers who seek to create collections in which all children can see themselves -- and each other -- reflected in the picture books they read.
Immersive Reader for Chrome
Reading Related Activities & Sites
Reading Related Activities & Sites
Visit Hogwarts & Enter the World of Harry Potter
Visit Hogwarts & Enter the World of Harry Potter
Reading, Interactive Activities and more with Star Wars
Become expert super-sleuths with these Carmen Sandiego™ educational resources! From posters to card games to episode guides and more, you’ll find everything you need to spark curiosity and inspire your Carmen crew.
eBooks
eBooks
Universal Digital Public Library - Millions of eBooks
Multiple Languages
Auckland, New Zealand Public Library - eBooks, Magazines, audio books
Many Books free eBook Library - 50,000+ books!
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive offers over 20,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts. There is also a collection of 1.3 million modern eBooks that may be borrowed by anyone with a free archive.org account.
Biblioboard eBook Library
The Monkey King Lives
Lady White Snake
Story, Opera, Posters
Getty Publications Virtual Library
More than 300 of our books to read and download for free
DigiLibraries
This I Believe is an international organization engaging people in writing and sharing essays describing the core values that guide their daily lives. Over 125,000 of these essays, written by people from all walks of life, have been archived here. The project is based on the popular 1950s radio series of the same name hosted by Edward R. Murrow.
Free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 format. An abstract, citation, playing time, and word count are given for each of the passages. Many of the passages also have a related reading strategy identified. Each reading passage can also be downloaded as a PDF and printed for use as a read-along or as supplemental reading material for your classroom.
Free eBooks for many devices
Collection of digital works of early American & British fiction including works by James Fenimore Cooper are in e-text format. In addition there is a full set of color page-images.
Fairy tales, Folktales, Tall tales, and more.
Fairy tales, Folktales, Tall tales, and more.
Access to free eBooks
with an account.
Graphic Novels
Graphic Novels
Over 1200 Graphic Novels & Comic eBooks
Centless Graphic Novels
Comic Republic Online
Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics
Free digital issues
Audio Books
Audio Books
LibriVox Audiobooks
Recorded by Volunteers
Literature for your eyes and ears! Enjoy audio and text together on the iPad or iPhone.
Literature for your eyes and ears! Enjoy audio and text together on the iPad or iPhone.
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dates back to the 1950’s and includes a rich and diverse collection of interviews and recordings with Australians from all walks of life.
Blackfoot Tribe
Oral Stories
Radio & Podcasts
Radio & Podcasts
Gen-Z Media Podcasts
Welcome to Activist, You! where YOU can be an activist TOO! Activist, You! is a brand new Kids & Family podcast focusing on social justice. Every episode our host Lindz Amer interviews different kid and youth activists, learning about their dedicated social justice topic, and how and why they became activists!
Meet The Fact Detectives - two curious kids on a mission to find out all the cool facts about EVERYTHING!
Join Anika and Dexter as they take their BIG questions to some very smart grown-ups who know lots of interesting facts about lots of interesting stuff.
Go Old School with a Radio Show!
Go Old School with a Radio Show!
The favored form of entertainment before TV was invented. This historic archive has many old radio shows to chose from.
Revealing, intimate conversations with visionaries and leaders in the arts, science, technology, public service, sports and business. These engaging personal stories are drawn from interviews with the American Academy of Achievement, and offer insights you’ll want to apply to your own life.
Covering the outer reaches of space to the tiniest microbes in our bodies, Science Friday is the trusted source for news about science, technology, and other cool stuff. Host Ira Flatow mixes it up by featuring people in the know and those who want to be. Science Friday frequently features listeners that call in with their most riveting science questions.
From the people who make Science Friday, we bring you Science Diction, a bite-sized podcast about words—and the science stories behind them. Hosted by SciFri producer and self-proclaimed word nerd Johanna Mayer, each episode of Science Diction digs into the origin of a single word or phrase, and, with the help of historians, etymologists, and scientists, reveals a surprising science connection.
Undiscovered is a podcast about the left turns, missteps, and lucky breaks that make science happen. From a gay activist inventing a new science of homosexuality at the turn of the 20th century to a shrimp biologist fighting to prove her research isn’t a waste of taxpayer money, hosts Annie Minoff and Elah Feder tell the stories of the people behind the science, and the people affected by it.
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks
then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
StoryCorps’ mission is to preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world.
We do this to remind one another of our shared humanity, to strengthen and build the connections between people, to teach the value of listening, and to weave into the fabric of our culture the understanding that everyone’s story matters. At the same time, we are creating an invaluable archive for future generations.
The US Nation's largest African American Oral History Collection
The US Nation's largest African American Oral History Collection
Over 3300 Biographies and Interviews with some of the most innovative people of our time from entertainment and arts to business moguls.
Jane Goodall
Find the rest of the series "Blank on Blank" here.
Yale professor Dr. Laurie Santos has studied the science of happiness and found that many of us do the exact opposite of what will truly make our lives better. Based on the psychology course she teaches at Yale--the most popular class in the university’s 300-year history.
Poetry
Poetry
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From the Catbird Seat
Poetry & Literature Collection
A Sonnet a Day with Sir Patrick Stewart
Maya Angelou with brief intro
Write About Now Channel
My Honest Poem
by Rudy Francisco
Can We Auto-Correct Humanity?
by Prince Ea
What Kind of Asian Are You?
by Alex Dang
Lost Count: A Love Story
Brave New Voices
Thinking About You
Brave New Voices
No More Heroes
Brave New Voices
Spelling Father
TEDx
To This Day
By Shane Koyczan
Chinese 101
By Alex Luu
A Letter to Remind Me
Who I Am
Poem by Shane Koyczan Animation by Shira Zaid
Short Videos & Online Shows
Short Videos & Online Shows
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Shakespeare Animated
Several Plays Available
The Looking Planet
Film Short
Zero
A short film about being different and bullying.
The Life of Death
The Present
Destiny
Quantum Jump
Monstrum
An online series with PBS's Storied channel on YouTube that looks at complex histories and motivations behind some of the world's most famous monsters.
Discover insightful profiles of important figures in America's artistic and cultural life.
Films & Documentaries
Films & Documentaries
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Streaming television has become one of our greatest resources these days, and the options available are really amazing. Take a break from the sitcom reruns and tune in to some of these educational documentaries to watch as a family. They’re just as entertaining, and help make screen time worthwhile.
Note: The ratings for these documentaries to watch as a family are provided by the streaming services themselves, but parents should of course use their own judgment when choosing shows for family viewing.
Persepolis
by Marjane Satrapi
English Version
Feature films, shorts, silent films and trailers are available for viewing and downloading.
Internet Archive
The LearnOutLoud.com Free Documentaries Collection features over 2000 free documentaries from across the World Wide Web. In this collection you’ll find educational documentaries from PBS including series like Frontline, American Experience, NOVA, and more. You’ll also find a handpicked assortment of the best documentaries from sites like Hulu.com, SnagFilms, the National Film Board of Canada, and YouTube.
Meet the Writers
Meet the Writers
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Mark Twain tells the story of the writer’s extraordinary life – full of rollicking adventure, stupendous success and crushing defeat, hilarious comedy and almost unbearable tragedy. By the end, the film helps us to see how Twain could claim with some justification, “I am not an American, I am the American.”
In his time, Mark Twain was considered the funniest man on earth. Yet he was also an unflinching critic of human nature, using his humor to attack hypocrisy, greed and racism. In this series, Ken Burns has created an illuminating portrait of the man who is also one of the greatest writers in American history.
Follow Jim Henson’s career, from his early television work with the Muppets in the 1950s to his commercial work and network appearances, his breakthrough with "Sesame Street" and “The Muppet Show,” his fantasy films and his sudden death in 1990.
How did the most famous Hoosier author since James Whitcomb Riley get his start? What about Indianapolis inspired him? Why did he keep coming back to Indianapolis in his books? This new documentary produced by WFYI i, explores Vonnegut’s hometown and the people and places that shaped him.
Best known for his Gothic horror tales and narrative poem “The Raven,” Poe’s stories are the basis of countless films and TV episodes, and have inspired even more, as has his name and image. Determined to re-invent American literature, Poe was an influential – and brutally honest – literary critic and magazine editor, who also invented the detective protagonist with his character C. Auguste Dupin.
An Interview with
An Interview with
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
Kurt Vonnegut
In November 1970, Kurt Vonnegut walked into a class room at NYU. He was a guest speaker that day. He’d prepared some handwritten notes on what he wanted to say: there were his thoughts on the art of writing, his childhood, the death of his parents.
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