Kids and Teens

ABCmouse.com Early Learning Academy offers an expert-designed curriculum for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten. With more than 5,000 individual learning activities and 450+ complete lessons along our Step-by-Step Learning Path™, ABCmouse.com encompasses reading and language arts, math, science, social studies, art, and music. Library Use Only.

Provides families and caregivers with daily brain-building moments.

TumbleBooks is a collection of animated, talking picture books. TumbleBooks can be read by you or to you! The collection includes storybooks, books in French and Spanish for language learning, non-fiction books, graphic novels, puzzles, and games. A Keene Public Library card number is required to use this program from home,

This is a comprehensive collection of math picture books with narration and animation. Books are accompanied by lesson plans and quizzes. Read the parent’s guide to bringing TumbleMath home! No library card required.

Offers fun activities, organized by age and routine, for parents to use to support their young child’s early learning. 

Each year the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) identifies the best of the best in children's books, recordings, and videos. 

Created with help from Bates College in Maine and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Diverse BookFinder site offers information on 1,300 picture books that can help kids have a more balanced and equal bookshelf.

Books about other countries and cultures set in contemporary times.

This is a list of old and new historical fiction chapter books.

What should I read next? That can be a really tough question! Log into Novelist K-8 to browse genres, see what's new, read professional reviews and find your next favorite book!

Includes fiction and nonfiction readers’ advisory for children and young adults.

A Keene Public Library card number is required to access this resource from home.

Cross-disciplinary source for junior and high school students and teachers, public librarians and general researchers who need to document and analyze periods of contemporary American social history (1900-1999).

A Keene Public Library card is required to access this resource from home.

AudioBookCloud.com allows you to listen to your favorite audio books with just a click of a button. Listen online to audio books in many different categories: fiction, non-fiction, classics and even Spanish language audio books! There are 1,000 books for children and adults in the collection.

Provides examples of science projects and experiments that can be replicated for science fairs and other purposes, as well as suggestions on ways to design projects that investigate specific scientific topics and includes step-by-step descriptions of projects.

A library card is required to access this resource from home.

Get help with your class assignments using Explora™, a kid-friendly interface from EBSCO, now available at your library. Learn about endangered species, famous musicians, space exploration and more! Explora contains complete articles from dozens of the most popular elementary school magazines. All complete articles are assigned reading-level indicators (Lexiles®), and many articles are available in color PDF. You’ll also find easy-to-read encyclopedia entries written specifically for kids and more than one million images of photos, maps, and flags!

A database, in e-book format, of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for research topics on the arts, biographies, education, and more.

A Keene Public Library card number is required to access this resource from home.

Did you know that the Keene Public Library has thousands of ebooks and audiobooks? You can borrow them instantly using just the device in your hand. Get the Libby app for your smartphone or tablet and start downloading ebooks and audiobooks today!

The importance of foreign language knowledge is more evident today than ever before. And Mango has utilized advanced technologies to make this increasingly necessary process of foreign language learning incredibly fun, simple, effective and accessible. Mango Languages offers 65 languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Greek, Russian, and Mandarin Chinese. Mango also offers English as a Second Language (ESL) courses.

Book-related puzzles, animated, talking picture eBooks in a format kids will love. TumbleBooks turns existing picture books into electronic picture books by adding animation, sound, music, and narration. Includes fiction and nonfiction readers’ advisory for children and young adults.

A Keene Public Library card number is required to access this from home.

This is a comprehensive collection of math picture books with narration and animation. Books are accompanied by lesson plans and quizzes. Read the parent’s guide to bringing TumbleMath home! No library card required.

TumbleBookCloud Junior is an online collection of ebooks and read-along chapter books, graphic novels, educational videos, and audiobooks! It's designed specifically for kids in grades two to six.

TBC is a collection of videos and chapter books in categories which include: Ebooks (Shakespeare, poetry, non-fiction, science, history, geography, etc.), Read-Alongs, Graphic Novels, Videos (from National Geographic!), and Audio Books.

Got Homework? Get free homework help from a live, online, qualified tutor! All you need is a library card and an Internet connection. You can get one-to-one help from home, school, and even the Library every day from noon until midnight. Includes K-12 Student Center, College Center, and Adult Education & Career Center.

Offers detailed comparative essays on major biomes and their component ecosystems. Includes entries on land biomes and water biomes and covers climate, elevation, soil, water bodies, vegetation, animal life, food web, plant and animal adaptations, endangered species, human effects on the biome and the effects of the environment on humans' culture and economy.

Covers cultural groups in Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Africa. Each volume is organized by continent, covering history, politics, customs, religion, education, human rights issues, teen life, and more.

A Keene Public Library card is required to access this resource from home.