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OverDrive/Libby

Libby

The OverDrive/Northern California Digital Library collection has ebooks, eAudiobooks, and eMagazines for beginning readers, kids, teens, and adults.

OverDrive titles are compatible with most devices, including smartphones, tablets, computers, and Kindles.

The app for OverDrive is Libby.

In addition to the many adult titles, there are dedicated reading rooms for kids and teens.

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hoopla

hoopla is a digital media service where you can check out movies, television, ebooks, audiobooks, and music. Thousands of titles are available for streaming or temporary download to your computer, smart phone or tablet. Check out movies for 3 days, music albums for 7 days and ebooks and audiobooks for 21 days.  5 titles per user per month.

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Kanopy

Kanopy

Kanopy Streaming Video. Kanopy provides access to one of the most unique collections of films in the world – including award-winning documentaries, training films and theatrical releases – on every topic imaginable. Users can view 8 films per month with their account. Mobile apps and a Roku channel are available.

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TumbleBook Library

TumbleBook Library LogoTumbleBook Library is an online collection of TumbleBooks--animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. TumbleBooks are created by taking existing picture books, adding animation, sound, music and narration to produce an electronic picture book which you can read, or have read to you. Also included are games and puzzles. TumbleBooks are created in flash animation. You will need the Flash plug-in for your browser and a computer set up for sound.

Go to TumbleBook Library View Tutorial

Novelist K-8

Novelist K-8 Logo Children's book resource, providing read alikes for both fiction and nonfiction. Find the order of titles in a series, find book recommendations by grade level, and that meet curricular standards.

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The library may not have all these titles in our collection, but we are accepting requests so you will be able to suggest that we purchase titles that are of most interest to you.

 

A Collection of Anti-Racist Reading Lists and Resources

Links to lists of books and resources that deal with anti-racism

Santa Cruz Public Libraries Booklist:  Black Lives Matter: resources for kids, tweens, and families

Today's Parent: 27 books to help you talk to your kids about racism

Charis Books & More: Books to teach white children and teens ho to undo racism and white supremacy

School Library Journal: Social Justice: Fifteen titles to address inequity, equality, and organizing for young readers | Great Books

Oakland Public Library: Listen, Learn, Participate: A #BlackLivesMatter Resource Series

Common Sense Media: Books about racism and social justice

Social Justice Books: The best selection of multicultural and social justice books for children, YA, and educators.

Children's Book CouncilA Collection of Juneteenth Reading Lists

Hoopla Titles (ebooks) you can borrow from SCPL:

  • A is for Activist, Innosanto Nagara (ebook)
  • Something Happened In Our Town, Marianne Celano (eaudio)
  • Separate is Never Equal, Duncan Tonatiuh (ebook)
  • Ruth and the Green Book, Calvin Alexander Ramsey (ebook)
  • Viola Desmond Won’t Be Budged, Jody Nyasha Warner (ebook)
  • We Are Different and Alike, Cynthia Geisen (ebook)
  • What’s Racism?, Amy B. Rogers (ebook)
  • American Civil Rights Movement, Emily Mahoney (ebook)
  • Rise Up! The Art of Protest, Jo Rippon and Mari Copeny (ebook)
  • Estadounidenses Asombrosos: Thurgood Marshall, Kristin Kemp (ebook)  

 

 
The library may not have all these titles in our collection, but we are accepting requests so you will be able to suggest that we purchase titles that are of most interest to you.

LGBTQ+ Book Lists

Book lists to celebrate Pride all year long.

Santa Cruz Public Libraries: LGBTQ Books 

Social Justice BooksLGBTQ+

American Library Association: The 2023 Rainbow Book List

Common Sense Media: LGBTQ Books

King County Library System: LGBTQ+ Picture Books for Children

King County Library System: LGBTQ+ Chapter Books for Children

Somos Familia: Entre Nos (Between Us) is an animated novela about family acceptance. 

OverDrive/Libby

Libby

The OverDrive/Northern California Digital Library collection has ebooks, eAudiobooks, and eMagazines for beginning readers, kids, teens, and adults.

OverDrive titles are compatible with most devices, including smartphones, tablets, computers, and Kindles.

The app for OverDrive is Libby.

In addition to the many adult titles, there are dedicated reading rooms for kids and teens.

Go to OverDrive/Libby View Tutorial
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hoopla

hoopla is a digital media service where you can check out movies, television, ebooks, audiobooks, and music. Thousands of titles are available for streaming or temporary download to your computer, smart phone or tablet. Check out movies for 3 days, music albums for 7 days and ebooks and audiobooks for 21 days.  5 titles per user per month.

Go to hoopla View Tutorial
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Kanopy

Kanopy

Kanopy Streaming Video. Kanopy provides access to one of the most unique collections of films in the world – including award-winning documentaries, training films and theatrical releases – on every topic imaginable. Users can view 8 films per month with their account. Mobile apps and a Roku channel are available.

Go to Kanopy View Tutorial
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TumbleBook Library

TumbleBook Library LogoTumbleBook Library is an online collection of TumbleBooks--animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. TumbleBooks are created by taking existing picture books, adding animation, sound, music and narration to produce an electronic picture book which you can read, or have read to you. Also included are games and puzzles. TumbleBooks are created in flash animation. You will need the Flash plug-in for your browser and a computer set up for sound.

Go to TumbleBook Library View Tutorial

Novelist K-8

Novelist K-8 Logo Children's book resource, providing read alikes for both fiction and nonfiction. Find the order of titles in a series, find book recommendations by grade level, and that meet curricular standards.

Go to Novelist K-8
 
The library may not have all these titles in our collection, but we are accepting requests so you will be able to suggest that we purchase titles that are of most interest to you.

 

A Collection of Anti-Racist Reading Lists and Resources

Links to lists of books and resources that deal with anti-racism

Santa Cruz Public Libraries Booklist:  Black Lives Matter: resources for kids, tweens, and families

Today's Parent: 27 books to help you talk to your kids about racism

Charis Books & More: Books to teach white children and teens ho to undo racism and white supremacy

School Library Journal: Social Justice: Fifteen titles to address inequity, equality, and organizing for young readers | Great Books

Oakland Public Library: Listen, Learn, Participate: A #BlackLivesMatter Resource Series

Common Sense Media: Books about racism and social justice

Social Justice Books: The best selection of multicultural and social justice books for children, YA, and educators.

Children's Book CouncilA Collection of Juneteenth Reading Lists

Hoopla Titles (ebooks) you can borrow from SCPL:

  • A is for Activist, Innosanto Nagara (ebook)
  • Something Happened In Our Town, Marianne Celano (eaudio)
  • Separate is Never Equal, Duncan Tonatiuh (ebook)
  • Ruth and the Green Book, Calvin Alexander Ramsey (ebook)
  • Viola Desmond Won’t Be Budged, Jody Nyasha Warner (ebook)
  • We Are Different and Alike, Cynthia Geisen (ebook)
  • What’s Racism?, Amy B. Rogers (ebook)
  • American Civil Rights Movement, Emily Mahoney (ebook)
  • Rise Up! The Art of Protest, Jo Rippon and Mari Copeny (ebook)
  • Estadounidenses Asombrosos: Thurgood Marshall, Kristin Kemp (ebook)  

 

 
The library may not have all these titles in our collection, but we are accepting requests so you will be able to suggest that we purchase titles that are of most interest to you.

LGBTQ+ Book Lists

Book lists to celebrate Pride all year long.

Santa Cruz Public Libraries: LGBTQ Books 

Social Justice BooksLGBTQ+

American Library Association: The 2023 Rainbow Book List

Common Sense Media: LGBTQ Books

King County Library System: LGBTQ+ Picture Books for Children

King County Library System: LGBTQ+ Chapter Books for Children

Somos Familia: Entre Nos (Between Us) is an animated novela about family acceptance.