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EBSCO'S Searchasaurus For elementary and middle school students: full-text databases that are searchable by keyword or by simply clicking on a subject of interest.	EBSCO Host Databases A comprehensive periodicals and reference database including: MasterFILE Premier, Business Source Elite, Health Source Plus, Newspaper Source, Middle Search Plus, Primary Search, and ERIC.
NoveList (new!) "Find a Favorite Author" or "Find a Favorite Title" from over 100,000 fiction books. NoveList is connected to AccessPA so you can see if your library owns the books you seek. NoveList is one of the EBSCO databases.	Professional Development Lib. (new!) A collection of over 500 full-text education journals including: Booklist, Education, Education Digest, Education Week, Journal of Education Research, Journal of Learning Disabilities, Phi Delta Kappan, Reading Teacher, School Library Journal, and many more for teachers and administrators. It is one of the EBSCO databases.
SIRS Discoverer Deluxe An interactive reference tool for young readers including: full-text articles and graphics, country facts, World Almanac for Kids, Funk and Wagnall's New Encyclopedia, biographies and more.	Grove's Dictionaries Comprehensive resources on topics relating to Music, Art, Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Life Sciences as well as access to the full text and graphics of Scientific American, 1993-present.
Bigchalk Designed for younger researchers with more than 60 cover-to-cover magazines and newspapers - as well as TV and radio transcripts, books and reference collections, photographs and images, and maps. 100% full text, updated daily.	Gale Group Contemporary Authors & Scribner Writers Series provide biographic and critical essay information on modern novelists, poets, playwrights, journalists, and noted scholars.
Associated Press Photo Archive An archive of 500,000 current and historical photographs that can be searched by date, place and subject. More than 800 photographs added daily.	Poem Finder Complete coverage of world poetry from antiquity to the present.æ Includes over 70,000 full text poems and over 750,000 poem citations and excerpts.
ACCESS PENNSYLVANIA Database Catalog records and locations for materials owned by over 2000 school, public, academic, and special libraries in Pennsylvania.

The POWER Library is a service of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania State Library,
the Bethlehem Area Public Library and the BASD school libraries. The POWER Library
gives access to thousands of full-text articles, a major encyclopedia, plus photographs,
pictures, charts, maps, reference materials for all ages.

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