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BookFlix
Watch, read, and listen to non-fiction and picture books - 80 pairs in 9 categories including Animals and Nature, People and Places, and Family and Community. Then play games and do puzzles based on the books. Includes 20 pairs in Spanish. Designed for preK - 3rd grade. This database provided by the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library.

Columbia Granger's World of Poetry
Provides over 500,000 citations for anthologized poetry including over 250,000 full text poems, 1,000 poem commentaries, 600 glossary terms, approximately 500 poet biographies, and full-text of 14 essential Columbia University Press titles of poetry history and criticism. Advanced search engine supports searching by gender, language, nationality, poem form, schools and movements, era, and nationality as well as author, title, words in poem, and subject. This database provided by the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library.

Library Literature
Library science citations with full text beginning in 2000. This database is provided by OPLIN, the Ohio Public Library Information Network.

Literature Criticism
Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available. Access to Contemporary Literary Criticism, Drama Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Something About the Author, and Tweentieth-Century Literary Criticism. This database provided by the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library.

Literature On line
Contains full-text works of poetry, drama, and fiction. This database provided by OPLIN, the Ohio Public Library Information Network.

Literature Resource Center
A resource for literary criticism, author biographies, author title lists and thematic articles. This database provided by the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library.

NoveList Plus
Find that next great read! NoveList Plus has over 9,000 fiction and nonfiction series, the ability to sort by popularity and/or Lexile scores, curriculum-driven material to help integrate reading across subject areas in the classroom, 600 hand-crafted Recommended Reads reading lists for all age groups, 500 Book Discussion Guides, over 1,850 searchable Award Lists, and more. This database provided by the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library.

Oxford Reference Online
Contains English and foreign language dictionaries, quotations, maps, timelines, and many subject specific reference resources. This database provided by the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library.

Something About the Author
Provides first-time comprehensive online access to all volumes ever printed in the series, which examines the lives and works of authors and illustrators for children and young adults. Something About the Author Online includes both the main series and Something About the Author Autobiography Series, totaling more than 12,000 entries, and nearly 17,000 images. This database provided by the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library.

TumbleBook Library
Build reading skills by reading and listening to storybooks; play games and solve puzzles, read/listen to classics. This database provided by the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library.

World Catalog/First Search
The world's most comprehensive bibliography with 40 million bibliographic records representing 400 languages. Covers information from the 11th Century to today, and includes holdings information from the libraries worldwide. This database provided by the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library.