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With 3,500+ interactive books, educational games, puzzles, and other learning activities, ABCmouse.com’s award-winning online curriculum is an invaluable resource for young learners (ages 2-6+). From Age of Learning, Inc. *Accessible only from Lake County Public Library's public computers, located at each of our branches.

Information about the United States, including capitals, cities, rivers, lakes, and the states.

Information about 176 countries for both students and travelers.

Traditional recipes for 174 countries of the world in all course categories, plus cultural information regarding dining etiquette, daily meals, and more.

Comprehensive information on just about any famous person, including inventors, politicians, celebrities, and many others.

Comprehensive coverage of the African American experience from the early 18th century to the present day. Sourced from more than 19,000 American and global news sources, including over 400 current and historical Black publications.

Contains resources both for a career search and for a college search.ﾠ

Reliable information on authors and their works in an easy to understand, engaging format, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history.

Everything you need to prepare to take your Indiana driving test! Contains FAQs and practice tests for cars, motorcycles, and CDL. Resources also available in Spanish!

Choose multiple databases to search at once. Offers a variety of topics, including literature and newspapers.

An excellent place for beginning research. General information on a variety of topics.

Curriculum standards, lesson plans, student tools, and helpful articles on topics like differentiated instruction and adaptive learning.

Mobile-friendly topic search - an excellent starting point for research. Read reputable articles on any subject, or just browse for ideas. (viaﾠINSPIRE)

Mobile-friendly topic search - an excellent starting point for research. Read reputable articles on any subject, or just browse for ideas. (viaﾠINSPIRE)

Mobile-friendly topic search - an excellent starting point for research. Read reputable articles on any subject, or just browse for ideas. (viaﾠINSPIRE)

Over 25,000 records covering an array of topics. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. Contains various images, brief biographies and information in a variety of subject areas. (viaﾠINSPIRE)

Search for academic articles, essays, and topics about literature. Includes items from Literature Criticism Online, Literature Resource Center, Gale Virtual Reference Library, and more.

Contains articles from newspapers and magazines from around the world. Searchable by audience, keyword, or publication title.

Free to Indiana residents: a searchable database of databases. Find hundreds of further resources for your research!

Our very own catalog contains several encyclopedias, newspapers, journals, and magazines!

Practice tests, tutorials, articles, and study materials to help you prepare for tests like the ACT and SAT, the GED, GMAT and LSAT, the U.S. citizenship exam, career and licensure exams, and more.ﾠ(Via INSPIRE)

Browse articles about authors and their works, or browse by topic. Also includes a search engine that allows you to search for articles by year (helpful if you're required to have more recent sources!) Results from this resource are also included inﾠGale Literary Sources.

A library of video courses taught by industry experts. Learn business, software, technology, and creative skills! Take courses in 3D animation, music production, marketing, programming languages, and more.

Periodicals contained in MAS Ultra cover a wide range of subject areas that are of interest to high-school students including art, history, sports, music, film, travel, science, the Internet, fashion, religion, nature, hobbies, current events, fiction and much more. (viaﾠINSPIRE)

Learn a new language! Mango uses interactive lessons to teach practical conversation.ﾠ

Full text for nearly 2,300 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. Also contains full text for more than 350 reference books, over 55,000 primary source documents, an image collection of nearly 1.9 million photos, maps and flags and more than 75,000 videos from the Associated Press. (viaﾠINSPIRE)

Full text for more than 140 popular middle school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). (viaﾠINSPIRE)

A complete archive of National Geographic magazine - every page of every issue.

Browse through global and local newspaper articles dating back to 1607. Search by first and last name, dates, or regions.

Presents the different sides of current events from several magazines and newspapers.

Contains full text for more than 80 popular elementary school magazines. All full-text articles are assigned reading level indicators (Lexiles). Includes thousands of relevant photos, maps and flags. (viaﾠINSPIRE)

In-depth articles, experiments, broad overviews, and biographies in every area of science from life sciences to space to technology.ﾠ

iPad/tablet ready science! Explore units on Earth Science, Technology and Engineering, Space, Biology, and Physics, each complete with articles, videos, quizzes, and experiments.

Original, scholar signed essays on the lives and works of authors from around the world from all time periods

Search for an author or book and get thousands of multimedia resources and lesson plans to enhance students' reading experiences. (viaﾠINSPIRE)

Live help from real tutors available from 4-11 PM every day. Log in to chat and get help with homework, writing papers, and studying for tests. (Tutors are unavailable on January 1, July 4, Thanksgiving, and December 25.)

In-depth critical introductions to the lives and works of major writers of the world within the context of the time period in which they lived

Presents different perspectives on historical issues side-by-side

Presents different perspectives on world issues side-by-side. Includes biographies of important world players and overviews of major historical eras.