Online Books and Stories
This page will include several links to external websites where you can read books or listen to stories being told online.
ABDO Digital 5-12 is a bookshelf of nonfiction, multi-user ebooks for grades 5-12. Available to all through the COVID-19 School Closure Crisis.
Subscription-based audiobooks available from the creators of the TumbleBooks database. Available to all during the COVID-19 school closure crisis.
Lerner PK-5 Database of eBooks. Lerner is a well-known publisher of nonfiction and fiction titles.
Lerner Grades 6-12 Database of eBooks.
Members of the Screen Actors Guild read books online for children!
The makers of TumbleBooks have also helped us out with a database of storybooks that focus entirely on math. This is available to all through August 31, 2020 as a way to help with the COVID-19 School Closures.
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ABDO digital K-8 is a bookshelf of nonfiction, multi-user ebooks for grades K-8. Available to all through the COVID-19 School Closure Crisis.
Book Hive is the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Public Library (North Carolina) children's library portal. You can watch professional storytellers tell stories here!
National Geographic Kids is a database provided by the Wyoming State Library. You can read the magazine and over 300 books online through this database. It may require a log-in at home. Ask Mrs. Lucas for log-in information.
Storynory has audio-only stories for children. It is a free site, and you are able to sign up to listen to the stories on your mp3 player.
Read 100+ free, diverse picture books for new readers and those new to English,
narrated in 20+ languages, including American Sign Language.
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Audible has released several of their children's titles as available for free listening for the time that school is closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Epic! is a subscription-based electronic library of over 35,000 books for students to read online. It does require a login, which you can get from your teacher, if they subscribe. Teacher subscriptions are free. Parents can also get a home subscription for $7.99/month following a 30 day free trial.
Mrs. P's Magic Library has stories available online for your listening pleasure!
The makers of TumbleBooks know that our teens also need access to some online stories, so they create Teen Book Cloud. It is available to all through August 2020 as a way to help with the COVID-19 School Closures.
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Aesop's fables are shown and read aloud so that you may follow along!
Junior Library Guild (JLG) is offering their Digital Book Collections for free access during the COVID-19 school closings. There are three school levels of access with different logins: Elementary: JLGELM / JLGFREE; Middle: JLGMID / JLGFREE; High: JLGHI / JLGFREE
This site reads books aloud with the added feature of having a person signing the story next to the book!
TumbleBooks is a subscription-based collection of online books that are read aloud. The picture books have animation added. This is a direct link so you will not need a login.
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