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Biography Resource Center
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General Reference Center - InfoTrac Magazine Index
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Grolier Databases
Includes: Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, Lands and Peoples, New Book of Popular Science, and The New Book of Knowledge
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Homework Help Web Links for Kids

Junior Edition - K12
This periodical database is designed for students in junior high and middle school, with magazines, newspapers and reference books (most are full-text) for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more. Click here for a complete title list.

Literature Resource Center
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Searchasaurus - EBSCO
Includes: Primary Search, Encyclopedia of Animals, General Encyclopedia, American Heritage Children's Dictionary
Designed for elementary schools and children’s reading rooms, this database includes: searchable full-text articles, reports and special issues from over 50 of the most popular K-12 magazines. It includes abstracts and indexing for nearly 80 titles, full text for over 100 pamphlets, two World Almanac Books (The World Almanac of the U.S.A. and The World Almanac for Kids), and over 500 charts, tables and graphs. The Encyclopedia of Animals is a full-text database with over 2,200 entries about mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish and dinosaurs. This is a student, home and general reference encyclopedia containing 25,000 articles. Click here for Primary Search titles.

TOPICsearch - EBSCO
Contains articles from over 1,100 magazines, 150 newspapers, 400 pamphlets, 1,500 popular biographies, 800 book reviews and 15,000 public opinion polls. Other categories covered in TOPICsearch are news, current issues, and government information. Click here for a complete title list.