In just a few days, school will be in session. Assignments will soon be in hand and your library wants to help make this a very successful year for your student! Here are homework help links that are not just "the Internet." These are online resources and databases that teachers respect and they are available to you 24/7 from any online computer, tablet, or phone. You’ll need your CMRLS library card with you to access them – but that’s it! To name just a few: Need help with these? Ask staff for assistance.
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Wow! Just like that Summer is gone! School is back and that means kids need information for projects! Check this out!
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World Book Online
Dictionary, encyclopedia, biography; maps, timelines, eBooks. Computer & web tutorials; current events, pathfinders, science projects; research tools, & citation builder.
Entries may be translated or listened to as text is read aloud.
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Or maybe a new book for a book report!
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The wild robot escapes by Peter Brown
A sequel to The Wild Robot finds a shipwrecked Robot Roz struggling to survive the challenges of the civilized world and find her way home to Brightbill and the island. By the award-winning author of Creepy Carrots! Simultaneous eBook. 150,000 first printing.
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Rock on : a story of guitars, gigs, girls, and a brother (not necessarily in that order)
by Denise Vega
Writing songs and practicing with his garage band friends, Ori Taylor hopes to step out of his older brother's shadow by competing in a Battle of the Bands contest and working up the nerve to talk to a girl, efforts that are compromised when his brother returns from college and expects Ori to step back into the role of younger sibling.
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We have NEW BOOKS for the adults, too!!
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Head on : A Novel of the Near Future
by John Scalzi
A follow-up to Lock In finds the near-future world reveling in a violent but seemingly harmless, robot-bodied sport until a star athlete dies unexpectedly on the field, prompting an investigation by two FBI agents into the game's increasingly lucrative competition. By the award-winning author of Redshirts
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