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Children and Teens

The Rutherford Public Library offers a wide variety of resources for all ages!

Programs

Check out the Program Calendar to find out what fun things are happening!

Fun Websites

For younger kids:
http://www2.bccls.org/kids/ (lots of fun, age-appropriate websites)

For older kids and teens:
http://www.freerice.com (great for SAT vocabulary, and help combat world hunger at the same time!)
http://www.sporcle.com (awesome fun trivia games!)

http://www.google.com

Schools

Want to visit your school’s website? Here are the links!

Lincoln School/ Lincoln School Library

Washington School/ Washington School Library

Pierrepont School/ Pierrepont School Library

Union School / Union School Library

Rutherford High School/ Rutherford High School Library

Research

Need to use a database for school? Here are some great recommendations especially for kids and teens:

To get to these, visit http://www.bccls.org/databases/log-in.shtml, type in your library card number (if at home- not needed in the library), and click on “All Resources” at the top: then, just click on the name of the one you want!

	EBSCO Animals (EBSCO) Great for: animal reports and other animal information and pictures!
	Kids Search (EBSCO) Great for: all subjects!, art, science, social studies, literature, health *Special layout for younger kids
	Points of View Reference Center (EBSCO) Great for: current events, important issues, controversial topics, debates, persuasive writing *excellent for older kids and teens!
	Searchasaurus (EBSCO) Great for: all subjects!, animals, states, countries, sports, history, literature *Special layout for younger kids
	Student Research Center (EBSCO) Great for: all subjects!, biographies, current events, primary sources, history, literature- has lots of primary sources and all sorts of reference materials *Special layout for older kids and teens
	TOPICsearch (EBSCO) Great for: current events; social, political & economic issues; scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today’s classrooms. *excellent for teens!
	Literature Resource Center (Gale) Great for: literature, author information, biographies *excellent for teens!
	Biography in Context (Gale) Great for: biographies of famous people *easy to use for all ages! Just search like Google!

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