Student Resources
A to Z Food America
by World Trade Press
The world's largest database of American food, culture, and recipes.
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A to Z Maps Online
by World Trade Press
Thousands of maps including outline, antique, political, and biologic maps and flags of the world, crossword puzzles, and other teaching tools.
A to Z the USA
by World Trade Press
An encyclopedia of the 55 U.S. states and territories. Includes images, antique and modern maps, states’ animal and flower, and more.
A to Z World Food
by World Trade Press
Contains traditional appetizer, main course, and dessert recipes from 174 countries around the world. Explore recipes by country, browse by ingredients, create your own own recipe list, and more.
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Bloom's Literature
by Infobase Learning
Offers a comprehensive resource for the study of literature including thousands of critical essays, discussion questions, author biographies, character analyses, full-length poems, full-text reference books, full-length videos of classic plays and films, and more.
BookFlix
by Scholastic
An engaging online literacy resource to help build a love of reading and learning in all your children. Requires Adobe Flash and cookies to be enabled.
CultureGrams
by ProQuest
A primary source reference for concise, reliable, and up-to-date cultural information on the countries of the world.
Educate Station
Educate Station offers weekly and monthly lesson plans for teachers and home school parents of students in per-kindergarten through 2nd grade.
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Explora Public Libraries
by EBSCO
Provides research collections on thousands of topics from the world's leading magazines and reference books. Search hundreds of professional journals, popular magazines, reference books, images, primary sources, and more.
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Gale Courses
by Gale / Cengage
Gale Courses offers online courses in computer skills, personal enrichment, medical, financial, and more.
Gale in Context: High School
by Gale / Cengage
Authoritative resource for student research. Includes a wide range of information, primary sources, overviews, videos, and more.
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General OneFile
by Gale / Cengage
Provides periodical and news information for researchers at all levels.
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Great Courses
by Libby
Learn everything about anything with access to over 3,500 in-depth and engaging video lectures on subjects like science, history, travel, cooking, and more from award-winning experts and professors from the most respected institutions in the world. Loan period is 7 days. Access Great Courses through the Libby App under the "Extras" section.
History Reference Source
by EBSCO
Covering topics in U.S. and world history from the earliest civilizations through the 21st century, History Reference Source contains full-text journals, magazines, reference books, and thousands of primary source documents.
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Learning Express Library
by EBSCO
Practice tests for all levels of standardized tests, study guides, skill-building courses, eBooks, and information for students of all ages.
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LinkedIn Learning
by LinkedIn
Get unlimited access to thousands of premier video courses and tutorials taught by industry experts in business, design, management, software, and other fields. An Elk Grove Village Public Library card is required for access.
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Literary Index
by Gale / Cengage
Search for the title or author of a literary work to see where it's discussed in Gale's literature criticism series.
Literature Resource Center
by Gale / Cengage
Provides access to biographies of authors and critical analyses their works.
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Mango Languages
An interactive language learning system offering everyday conversational skills; beginning and advanced student coursework; and ESL courses. Register with a valid email or use Mango as a guest.
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MasterFILE Complete
by EBSCO
Contains the largest collection of full-text magazines, reference books, and other highly-regarded sources from the world's leading publishers. Ideal for research and school projects.
Gale eBooks
by Gale / Cengage
Reference eBooks on biography, business, environment, history, law, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, nations/world, religion, science, social science, and more. Formerly called Formerly called Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Nexis Uni
Provides access to a wide range of information on business, business resources, and newspaper and magazine articles.
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Novelist K-8
by EBSCO
Find titles chosen to support the school curriculum as well as the pleasure reading needs of students.
Rosetta Stone
by EBSCO
An interactive and immersive language-learning program available in nearly 30 different languages with over 200 hours of instruction per language.
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Science Online
by Infobase Learning
Offers expansive reference coverage of scientific disciplines through essays, videos, diagrams, definitions, and experiments. Science Online also helps students find a starting point for their research.
Today's Science
by Infobase Learning
Offers comprehensive and in-depth explanations of important advances in biology, chemistry, environment science, space, physics, and technology.
Tutor.com
by Princeton Review
Tutor.com offers free live homework help to students in grades 4-12 succeed in Math, Science, Social Studies, and English.
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World Book Online
World Book Encyclopedia plus an atlas and background information on current news stories.
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