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Live Homework Help
Available for free at all Des Moines Public Library locations from 3:00 PM to 10:00 PM. For students in grades k - 12. Sign up now!

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Biography ResourceCenter »
Full-text articles about well-known people. Often there are photographs and supporting magazine articles, reviews, and websites.

EBSCO Kids Search »
Magazine articles, images, dictionary, and encyclopedia for kids. Kids Search is designed especially for youth in grades K-8. Colorful, graphic, visual searching or verbal word searching. Also, links for teachers.

EBSCO Student Research Center »
This homework help database makes it easy for students to search by topic to find the most useful information, magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc. There is plenty of full-text for reading and printing. Geared especially for Grades 6-12.

eLibrary (Electric Library) »
eLibrary has general articles and is especially good for homework help. You can choose your search by reading level, or choose to search in Spanish. Choose newspapers, magazines, books, maps, pictures, audio, video or transcripts. There are dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesaurus, almanac, and atlas for reference and research.

TumbleBook Library »
E-books for e-kids! Storybooks, puzzles, games, audio books and more.