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Access to Flipster eMagazines, Freegal music streaming & downloading,  Hoopla, OverDrive, and EBdigital, providing eBooks, eAudiobooks - Click to view -  and the new ​Lynda.com, a premier online learning resource that includes over 3,000 courses (and over 130,000 videos) in popular fields like web design, web development, IT, media production, digital art, photography, productivity, and business.. 
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Florida Teens Read 2018-2019
Reader's choice:  FAME philosophy
Join us in choosing Florida's favorite teen read.
  • Sign up to read a minimum of 3 out of 15 FTR books.
  • Receive a book pin after commenting.
  • Vote for the winner in May.
  • Receive a gift book and sweet treat.
  • Compete in the county-wide contest next year!​​
FTR Battle of the Books is a new, expanded FTR contest
between the high schools in Manatee County.
Teams of four will form to compete in answering questions about
our FTR books, using the game format Cranium Core.
​See Mrs. Roff if you want to participate.  This requires a 15 book commitment and bi-monthly meetings after school.  Final contest:  March 15, 2018
SIRS  is no longer available.  See below for a strong alternative.  
"ProCon.org ​is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, providing professionally-researched pro, con, and related information on more than 50 controversial issues from gun control and death penalty to illegal immigration and alternative energy. Using the fair, FREE, and unbiased resources at ProCon.org, millions of people each year learn new facts, think critically about both sides of important issues, and strengthen their minds and opinions.​"
Links to helpful websites.  See Visuwords, a fun online graphic dictionary, Science 360 Video Library, CIA World Factbook, The Literature Network, and more...
      Florida Electronic Library
​World Book Encyclopedia Online
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Florida Electronic Library  offers 15 high school level databases, including InfoTrac, Academic One File,  LitFinder, US & World History Collection, General Science Collection, and more.  The FEL has provided over 190 million articles, e-books, videos and other electronic resources to the students of Florida since 2003.  Choose grade level.


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​World Book Online's tens of thousands of index entries make it easy for you to find information which includes color photos, diagrams, charts, tables, videos, interactives, and easy-to-read text.  World Book's Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos is included: World Book in Spanish.