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Magazines and reference books for middle school students. Includes thousands of biographies and primary source documents. Subjects include history, current events, science, sports, and biographies. Also includes photos, maps, and flags.

NoveList K-8 Plus is especially for younger readers with reading recommendations for both fiction and nonfiction, for kids in grades K-8.

Designed for middle school libraries, Middle Search Plus is a full-text database providing popular middle school magazines and reference e-books.

This full-text Spanish-language database covers a broad array of subjects inside and outside academia. It offers content from a variety of sources, including reference books, general interest magazines and health reports.

Educational Websites

This is a must-bookmark site for classrooms across the curriculum hunting for inspiring science & geography-based resources.

A modern, well-curated, and well-contextualized digital collection of African-American history.

American history artifacts and activities to kick-starting curious learning.


Engaging and authentic material connects the U.S. Census to many subject areas.

Discover, create, remix, and share first-rate museum artifacts. An open-ended curation and creation tool.

An interactive and fun science-related website. It has a vast collection of simulators covering most topics with physics from circuits to waves to quantum mechanics.

The best resources for STEM learning on the web.

The Library of Congress delivers the best of America's past and present, and with teacher support it could be a reliable research resource for students.

Case Maker is a collection of 20 pre-made challenges ready to be used for 6th through 8th grade civics education projects. But that’s just the beginning. Teachers may register for a free account may make copies of the pre-made challenges and completely customize them to suit their needs.

Google Arts & Culture is an online platform of high-resolution images and videos of artworks and cultural artifacts from partner cultural organizations throughout the world.

The Digital Public Library of America is a US project aimed at providing public access to digital holdings in order to create a large-scale public digital library. It officially launched on April 18, 2013, after 2.5 years of development