Resources

Borrow eBooks, eAudiobooks, and eMagazines. 

• Loan period is 14 days.

LinkedIn has now acquired Lynda.com. Tens of thousands of online courses are available on many business, technology, and digital media topics. They also added tutorials in Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, French, German, and Portuguese.

One on one tutoring in math, English, science, social studies, AP classes, college test prep, and more for students in fourth grade through college and beyond. Tutors are available in English and Spanish from 3:00pm-10:00pm.

Enjoy a picture book collection of 3,000 book titles in 65+ languages, including Arabic, American Sign Language, Arabic, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Ukrainian, Urdu and more!

Offers ongoing full text for the most popular magazines for middle schools, including: Astronomy, Cobblestone, Discover, Faces, Newsweek, Ranger Rick, Science News, Sports Illustrated, Sports Illustrated Kids, TIME, TIME for Kids. Middle Search Plus also includes The Encyclopedia of Animals.

Learn a new language or improve your first language through videos, reading, games and more! To use Muzzy Club on a mobile device, download the MuzzyApp. Use the username AddisonPL@muzzybbc.com and the password AddisonMuzzy to access. Please note that the MuzzyApp only allows videos to be played. All other games must be accessed through this Muzzy website.

Complete searchable archive of National Geographic Kids Magazine from its first issue in 2009 through the present. Geared toward kids ages 6-14. Browse the magazines, explore topics, and watch videos.

Detailed information about fiction books and authors for students in grades K-8.

Covering almost 400 topics, each has an overview, background, description and argument and counter-argument on current topics. Also included for each topic is a Guide to Critical Analysis for help in evaluating controversial subjects and opposing viewpoints.

A full-text data of carefully curated content for elementary school children. Provides full text on some of the most popular children’s magazines including:Ask, Click, Cobblestone, Cricket, Faces, Fun For Kidz, Highlights, Ladybug, Muse, Ranger Rick, Ranger rick, Jr., Scholastic News, and Spider. Primary Search also includes reference e-books from top children's publishers.

Thousands of searchable and printable educational materials for Pre-K through 8th grade, including skills and activity sheets, mini-books and lesson plans by topics.

Exciting 1-2 minute videos geared toward the preschool-3rd grade crowd that feature real-world footage about science, social   studies, and language arts. Extra features include quizzes, vocabulary previews, and think sheets to promote comprehension.  The videos encourage social-emotional learning, social skills, self-awareness, kindness, inclusiveness, manners, friendships and more!

Read along with dozens of the all-time best picture books, many available in both English and Spanish.

Geared towards stuents in grades 4-9, this resource covers more than 30 subjects in all areas of science using video, articles, and interactive content including experiments.

Introducing the Palace Project — an e-reading experience developed by and for libraries. Enjoy thousands of free books from the Palace Bookshelf. The Palace Project app replaces the now discontinued Boundless app. The same collection on a new platform!

The Palace Project is only available as an app.  Once downloaded, search for the “Addison Public Library” and enter your APL card number and pin associated with your account to access our collection and begin borrowing and reserving titles.

Download the Palace app: iOS | Android

Animated talking picture books.

World Book has the classic encyclopedia entries students have used for years as well as activity ideas, timelines, and interactive early learning games.