This is an additional resource for fiction and nonfiction ebooks. Feel free to browse for titles you might be interested in.
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P.S. I know we are not Kenai H.S. :). This account was created for the entire Kenai district, that is why the log in is formatted that way.
Sora has the first Harry Potter ebook and audiobook as simultaneous copies from April 1-30. That means it will always be available for you to borrow from Sora through April 30.
Our Statewide Library Electronic Doorway offers free tutoring Monday-Friday, 8 am -2 am, and Saturday and Sunday, noon – 2 am. Remember to look in Canvas for the at home/off campus log in information.
Don’t forget you can use your school log in for KPBSD’s Sora collection AND the public library’s ebook and audiobook collection (if you don’t have a library card that you would use instead).
I am still your Librarian and I am here to get you things! While they will be online things I will absolutely still help you with research, password questions, communication, and other questions you might have (think math tutoring). Feel free to email me at twear@kpbsd.org.
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (click on the title to preview the book)
Today in the U.S., there are more than five hundred federally recognized indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the U.S. told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire.
Hacks for Minecrafters by Megan Miller (click on the title to preview the ebook)
The most encompassing guide ever to redstone in the world of Minecraft!
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green (click on title to preview the audiobook)
Sixteen-year-old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there’s a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her best and most fearless friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate.
Give Sora a look! Remember there are both ebooks and audiobooks. Swing by the library if you have any questions or need help getting the app on your phone.
The district’s eBook and Audiobook platform, Overdrive, will be moving to Sora. You can start using it now. It has all the same material but with an updated look. Watch the short video I made last year when they introduced Sora to us. You can get the Sora app for free on your phone and/or read and listen to books on your computer.
If you missed THE BIG READ don’t worry, we have the hard copy!
I’m Not Dying With You Tonight by Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal (click on link to sample the book)
Told from two viewpoints, Atlanta high school seniors Lena and Campbell, one black, one white, must rely on each other to survive after a football rivalry escalates into a riot.
Book: Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky (click on title to preview the book)
Single mother Kate Reese is on the run. Determined to improve life for her and her son, she flees an abusive relationship in the middle of the night with Christopher at her side. Together, they find themselves drawn to the tight-knit community of Mill Grove, Pennsylvania. It’s as far off the beaten track as they can get. Just one highway in, one highway out. At first, it seems like the perfect place to finally settle down. Then Christopher vanishes. For six awful days, no one can find him. Until Christopher emerges from the woods at the edge of town, unharmed but not unchanged. He returns with a voice in his head only he can hear, with a mission only he can complete: Build a tree house in the woods by Christmas, or his mother and everyone in the town will never be the same again. Soon Kate and Christopher find themselves in the fight of their lives, caught in the middle of a war playing out between good and evil, with their small town as the battleground.
eBook: Rebel Spring by Morgan Rhodes (click on title to preview)
When the evil King Gaius announces that a road is to be built into the Forbidden Mountains, formally linking all of Mytica together, he sets off a chain of events that will forever change the face of this land, forcing Cleo the dethroned princess, Magnus the reluctant heir, Lucia the haunted sorceress, and Jonas the desperate rebel to take steps they never could have imagined.
Audiobook: I Will Always Write Back by Martin Ganda (click on title to preview)
It started as an assignment. Everyone in Caitlin’s class wrote to an unknown student somewhere in a distant place. Martin was lucky to even receive a pen-pal letter. There were only ten letters, and fifty kids in his class. But he was the top student, so he got the first one. That letter was the beginning of a correspondence that spanned six years and changed two lives. In this compelling dual memoir, Caitlin and Martin recount how they became best friends –and better people–through their long-distance exchange. Their story will inspire you to look beyond your own life and wonder about the world at large and your place in it.