Books and Reading

Collection of over 500 fiction and nonfiction animated, talking story, and chapter books. Includes French and Spanish books, National Geographic videos, puzzles, games, and songs.

For grades K–8. Resource for helping to match young readers with books.

Resource for helping readers find books they will want to read next, for both fiction and nonfiction.

Scholarly and popular commentary from centuries of literary analysis, including broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books, and periodicals.

Full text literary analysis and criticism including plot summaries, synopses, author biographies and interviews, and book reviews.

Information on great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature.

Bilingual dictionaries for Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish, including a pronunciation feature and other language learning and usage tools.

Meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words from across the English-speaking world. Updated quarterly.

Full text of hundreds of thousands of poems and short stories as well as author biographies, poem analyses, and essays about the poetic form.

For pre-K through 8th grade. Search for books by author, topic, grade, series, or time period.