Books and Reading

For middle school students through adults. Tools on how to write and research effectively, grammar and punctuation, writing specific types of documents, and more.

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.

Full-text articles and works, critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, biographies, and more.

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.

Comprehensive resource for reviews of books, periodicals, books-on-tape, and electronic media.

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.