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*** Accelerated Reading (Keyed to Read) List for Holmes Junior High

CultureGrams Online use at home use in library

Includes concise cultural and statistical snapshots of every country recognized by the United Nations -- from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Also includes unique, intimate details of each country's customs, traditions and daily life documented by local experts.

FirstSearch use at home use in library

A collection of electronic databases, including WorldCat, the world's largest bibliographic database with over 40 million records.

Ferguson's Career Guidance Center use at home use in library

Provides detailed profiles of more than 3,300 jobs and 94 industries, invaluable advice on career skills, more than 48,000 resource entries, and much more!

Gale Virtual Reference Library use at home use in library

Search more than 330 full text reference sources on a wide range of topics.

Illinois Clicks use at home use in library

Citizens Library of Illinois Comprehensive Knowledge Service (CLICKS), an anywhere, anytime information portal created and maintained by librarians statewide.

Issues & Controversies click here to use
Issues & Controversies is an authoritative source of up-to-date, in-depth and objective information on the most prominent and hotly debated current issues.

Learning Express Library use at home use in library

Take practice tests in a variety of subject areas, including ACT, GED, Civil Service and Citizenship exams. Also includes school skills improvement tutorials for specific grade levels.

LexisNexis Library Express use at home use in library

Access over 1,000 national, regional and international news publications, information on over 44 million U.S. and international companies, legal information including case law, statues and regulations, and biographical information. (Access outside Library excludes Legal infomation.)

Literature Resource Center (Infotrac) use at home use in library

Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.

Mango Languages Click here to use

Mango Languages is a FREE online language-learning system teaching actual conversation skills for a wide variety of languages. Languages include: Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, French, Japanese, English for Spanish and Polish speakers and many more.

MasterFILE Premier (Ebsco) Click here to use
Fulltext articles for approximately 1,700 periodicals that cover general reference, business, health, education science, and more. Includes reference books, primary source documents, photos, maps,images, and flags. Includes full text of Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, Archaeology, Rolling Stone, National Review, and Consumer Reports.

Novelist Plus Click Here to use

A reader’s advisory tool for all ages that helps readers find new books based on books they’ve read or topics in which they are interested.

Novelist K-8 Plus Click Here to use

Enter a title or author you like, or describe a book you would like to read, and NoveList finds books for you

Opposing Viewpoints in Context (Gale/Cengage) Click here to use

This full-text resource covers today’s hottest social issues, from Terrorism to Endangered Species, Stem Cell Research to Gun Control, bringing together all the information that’s needed to fully understand an issue: pro and con viewpoint articles, reference articles that provide context, full-text magazines, academic journals, and newspapers, primary source documents, government and organizational statistics, multimedia, including images and podcasts, links to hand-selected web sites, and more!

Salem Health use at home use in library

Provides access to Magill's Medical Guide, including information about diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and issues.

Salem History use at home use in library

Includes historical information, primary source documents, biographies and information about 20th century decades.

Salem Literature use at home use in library

An online collection of classical and current literary criticism of the world’s most-studied literature from Salem Literature’s popular reference series

Salem Science use at home use in library

Salem Science presents two online versions of their print resources, The Solar System and The Encyclopedia of Global Warming.

Science Online (Facts on File) use at home use in library

Presents a broad range of scientific disciplines through extensive definitions, essays, diagrams, biographies, and experiments.

World Book Online Reference Center use at home use in library

Includes encyclopedia articles, maps, timelines and multimedia content. Also available in Spanish.

Citation Tools:

Websites to Help You Format Your Citations

• http://www.easybib.com/ - Helps you create citations for your bibliography all you have to do is fill in the information and then the site will format it for you (MLA, APA)
• http://citationmachine.net/index2.php - Another great citation tool, enter the ISBN number of the item you'd like to cite or select the format from the left side and fill in the information yourself and then the website will do the rest (MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago)
• http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ A great site put together by Purdue University that not only helps you cite all different materials, but it has lots of tips for writing great research papers (MLA, APA)

Don't want to use a website? Then grab these books from the Library to help you create you bibiography: *include book covers please*

• Cite it Right: the SourcAid LLC guide to citation, research, and avoiding plagiarism -(MLA, APA, Chicago Style and more)
• Cite Right : a quick guide to citation styles--MLA, APA, Chicago, the sciences, professions, and more
• Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA)
• MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing

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