General Resources & Databases
You will need a valid library card to use these resources. Visit our Research Databases page and the New Jersey State Library’s Jersey Clicks page for additional resources.
Explora Primary Schools
A reference resource for elementary school students with entries on various subjects.
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Literary Reference Source
A comprehensive database providing users with information on thousands of authors and their works. Includes the full-text of over a million plot summaries, synopses, work overviews, literary criticism articles and essays, author biographies, literary journals, book reviews, poems, short stories, author interviews, and classic texts across all literary disciplines and timeframes.
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LOTE4Kids
Helps kids explore languages and cultures through interactive stories, games, songs, and videos. Designed for young learners, it makes language learning fun, engaging, and age-appropriate at home or in the classroom.
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MiddleSearch Plus
Full-text articles from popular middle school magazines. Includes the full text of thousands of popular middle school magazines, biographies, historical essays, primary source documents, and more. The reading level of all included articles are assigned a Lexile score.
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NoveList K-8
Reader’s advisory tool for fiction readers, grades Kindergarten through 8th grade. This tool is designed for students in grades K-8 and offers reading lists, searchable lists of award-winning titles, series coverage, curriculum support, and the ability to search for books by a variety of criteria including Lexile scores, subject, author and popularity.
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Points of View Reference Source
Database designed to present users with multiple perspectives on a current social issue. Covers over 200 current social topics and contains a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including background information, points/counter-points, essays, leading political magazines, newspapers, radio and TV news transcripts, primary source documents, and reference books.
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Primary Search
Full-text articles from popular elementary/primary school magazines. Includes the full text of thousands of popular elementary/primary school magazines, biographies, historical essays, primary source documents, and more. The reading level of all included articles are assigned a Lexile score.
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Referencia Latina
Una base de datos complete de habla hispana. A complete database in Spanish. Una base de datos completa de habla hispana, que ofrece contenido de una variedad de contenido incluyendo 49,000 entradas enciclopedicas, más de 100,000 imágenes, 2,500 informes sobre la salud, un diccionario español-inglés y texto completo para más de 100 libros de referencia y docenas de revistas de interés general en una amplia gama de áreas temáticas
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These websites provide excellent resources and content for kids, including homework help, practice problems, and more!
Khan Academy
This website features an extensive library of K-12 subject guides and study materials, following common core as well as AP classes. After creating an account, students can use Khan Academy to supplement their learning and practice difficult concepts at home. Khan Academy also has resources for SAT/ACT test takers.
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ReadThinkWrite
This website focuses on literacy with resources to help improve students’ reading and writing skills.
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Parents, teachers, and students can use the following resources from Scholastic to search for appropriately leveled books.
Scholastic BookWizard
This tool displays Scholastic books by reading level (A-Z) and suggested grade level. Use this tool to search for titles appropriate for your child or student and then visit or contact the library at 973-402-0900 to see which books are currently available in the collection.
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Scholastic Reading Level Conversion Chart
This chart displays Scholastic reading levels (A-Z) and their equivalent Lexile Levels and DRA Levels for students in grades K – 6.
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