First Grade Resources: Library Databases

CultureGrams goes beyond basic facts and figures with local perspectives on more than 200 countries, detailing daily life and culture, including history, customs, and lifestyles.

NC Kids Digital Library offers e-books, audiobooks, streaming videos, and Read-Alongs. This collection was specifically designed for youth ages pre-K through 4th grade and includes picture books, youth fiction, youth nonfiction, and more. Browsing can be done by subject, format or genre, and the advanced search feature allows filtering by availability, language, date added, and much more. Titles are accessed via OverDrive. OverDrive titles can be accessed from your desktop using OverDrive Read or Listen. Mobile and tablet customers, download the OverDrive app for iOS and Android.

OverDrive eReading Room: Kids Collection offers e-books, digital audiobooks, and streaming videos. The Kids Collection includes picture books, youth fiction, youth nonfiction, and more. Kids can browse, sample, place holds and borrow titles appropriate for their age range and reading level. No adult content will appear in the search results. OverDrive titles can be accessed from a desktop using OverDrive Read or Listen. Mobile and tablet customers, download the OverDrive app or Libby app for iOS and Android.

In PebbleGo Science you will discover physical, life, and earth & space sciences, along with engineering, technology, and their applications. With nearly 250 (and growing) articles connected to Next Generation Science Standards from weather and shapes to plants, simple machines, technology and more, you will never run out of new things to spark curiosity about how and why things work, and you'll always have a go-to science resource you can rely on. Special features: activities & critical thinking questions and two videos for most articles. Also available in Spanish.

TumbleBooks is a collection of animated, talking picture books. TumbleBooks can be read by you or read to you! Our TumbleBook collection includes story books, books in French and Spanish for language learning, read-along books, non-fiction books, puzzles and games.

Kanopy Kids highlights films and TV series that inspire and inform, helping children develop empathy, mindfulness, and self-esteem through entertaining and educational videos. Kanopy Kids categories include TV Series, Learning Languages, Animated Storybooks, Anime Favorites, Classic Films, and Movies for the whole family. Parents can set up parental controls for their Kanopy accounts.