Youth & teen
digital resources

From reliable reference materials that combine text, audio, and video to homework help, these resources are designed to help young learners succeed and enhance literacy.

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Novelist

Find your next read with Novelist. Looking for a good fiction or nonfiction book? Search by subject, plot summary, grade level, and more.

Novelist K-8

Find reading suggestions for picture books, children’s chapter books, and young adult titles. Search or browse by subject, plot summary, grade level, and more.

Scholastic Teachables

Scholastic Teachables is an online database of tens of thousands of searchable and printable educational materials, created by teachers and precisely leveled. Materials are available for teachers, homeschooling caregivers, and learners from Pre-K to Grade 8.

Teachingbooks

An online collection of resources for children’s and young adult books, selected to encourage the integration of multimedia author and book materials into reading and library activities for K-12 students.

Transparent Language

Learn a new language using a self-paced, online language-learning system. Transparent Language offers courses in over 100 languages.

TumbleBooks

TumbleBooks features animated ebooks for young children with read-along narration and sound. Also find games, puzzles, quizzes, and read-along chapter books for young readers.