Youth & Homework Help 
You may be asked for your 14 digit library card to access the following resources.

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 Career Cruising is designed to help students and others plan their future. Assessment tools, detailed occupation profiles, and comprehensive post-secondary education information, move seamlessly through the career exploration and planning process.



Canada in Context
covers a broad range of Canadian topics, people, places, events. Written from a Canadian perspective with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites.



Full-text of Canadian and international magazines, newspapers and reference titles.





For students doing research papers and class assignments in five core subject areas: history, literature, biography, science and social studies. Reference and primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including video and audio clips.


Grzimek's Animal Life is the online version of Grzimek's acclaimed 17-volume Animal Life Encyclopedia, with information about 4,000 species categorized by Amphibians, Reptiles and Birds, Fish, Insects, Mammals and Simple Aquatic Life, including information on evolution, habitat, behavior, range and more.


Designed for junior high and middle school students, InfoTrac Junior Edition features the titles most critical to their libraries and curriculum. With Junior Edition's diverse perspectives and strong full-text coverage, students will find the answers they need to all their general reference questions.

Kids InfoBits is the exciting new database designed especially for students in kindergarten through grade five. Complete with an engaging graphic interface, reference content and the best magazines for elementary students, Kids InfoBits addresses the way kids learn and conduct research - and makes it fun!


The PebbleGo databases make learning and improving reading and research skills fun, building on children?s interest. PebbleGo offers two separate databases: PebbleGo Animals and PebbleGo Earth & Space. Both databases are simple to navigate and offer key reading supports of read-along audio and word-by-word highlighting.



This database was developed for teens, with their unique concerns in mind. Curricular support and self-help on topics including diseases, drugs & alcohol, nutrition, mental and emotional health, sexuality, cyber literacy, family life.




World Book Online 
contains every article used in the print set as well as multimedia, maps, website links, and much more. This is a great resource for children's school projects as there is a World Book Kids' section just for them.




The Library wishes to acknowledge the contribution of the Southern Ontario Library Service and Ontario Library Service - North in providing many of these resources. The support of the Government of Ontario through the Ministry of Tourism and Culture is gratefully acknowledged.