Resources for Students
Books & eBooks
Over 1,400 ebook for elementary and ELL students to listen and read-along; in English, Spanish, and French.
Over 1,200 ebooks for middle and high school students: graphic novels, chapter books, middle school readers, YA/teen Novels, classic literature, and Shakespeare.
TeachingBooks.net is an easy-to-use website that adds multimedia resources to the reading experiences of children's and young adult books, such as author interviews, lesson plans, and more. Log in using Clever.
Open eBooks is an app with thousands of popular and award-winning titles for children and teens. MPS students log in using Clever.
Databases
Search all Minneapolis Public School libraries from school and home. Use Webpath Express, the academically and developmentally appropriate search engine, to search over 80,000 resources vetted by professional librarians.
PebbleGo databases feature text and navigation specifically designed for beginning researchers. The information in the six databases (Animals, Science, Biographies, Social Studies, Dinosaurs, and Animales (Spanish language)) are enriched with spoken-word audio, text highlighting, and audio/video media.
PebbleGoNext databases, States and American Indian studies, feature easy navigation, read-along audio, word-by-word highlighting, along with a variety of downloadable content.
Comprehensive up-to-date online encyclopedia with versions for elementary, middle and high school students.
Databases for elementary students, provided by Minnesota State Library Services.
Databases, video clips, magazines, newspapers @ your fingertips, includes links for students in grades 6-12. Provided by Minnesota State Library Services.