Resources for Kids
Library fun online!
 | Find more e-resources at the Boston Public Library using your free BPL e-card. Apply for one today! |
 | Online video classes! More than 1,000 award-winning art & craft video classes taught by recognized design experts and artists. |
 | Search Commonwealth Catalog for books, DVDs and more statewide. |
 | Thousands of movies, television, music, and audiobook titles for free with your library card. Always available, no waiting lists. Enjoy on your PC, tablet, or phone. For Franklin residents only. |
 | On-demand movie streaming video service with access to thousands of documentary, foreign, silent, and independent films. Stream Kanopy on your computer or download the app. For Franklin residents only. |
 | Find your next book obsession using Novelist! Search for a book you LOVE and find new stroies like it to enjoy! |
Learn a new skill!
 | Award-winning interactive method to learn a new language. Core lessons build reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills in 30 languages. Your Franklin library card number is your Library ID! For Franklin residents only. |
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 | An engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on the world's most influential people.
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 | Learning Zone is a classroom-tested, interactive learning environment that gives early learners enjoyable, engaging, and developmentally appropriate activities to help grow their minds, their spirits, and their intellectual horizons. |
 | Elementary, Middle and High School levels, plus read-aloud al all levels and translation for over 50 languages. |
 | Delivers two products in one—a reference collection for ages 6-12 and another for the high school and college ages. |
 | Search Digital Commonwealth for historical photographs, documents, sound recordings and more |
 | Offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. |
 | Features a developmentally appropriate and visual graphic interface, a subject-based topic tree search and full-text, age-appropriate, curriculum-related magazine and reference content. Targets the research needs of students in Kindergarten through Grade 5. |
 | Provides topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations, as well as articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites. |
 | An engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in U.S. History. |
 | An engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in World History. |
Not finding What you need? Click Bellow for a full list of databases!Full-text magazines, news, encyclopedias, and e-reference books | |