Deer Park Community City Schools

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Library Link for Amity Elementary School

Amity Library Catalog

While at the Deer Park Branch Public Library, ask the librarian to see the updated Accelerated Reader list.

Infohio Resources
See the librarian for the user name and password that is required for at home use.

AccessScience
Online access to over 7000 articles and "Research Updates" in all areas of science and technology

AMICO
Online image collection of paintings and other art works

Britanica Online School Edition
Three general encyclopedias
for most grades
and subjects

SIRS Discoverer Deluxe
Thousands of articles from more than 1,200 sources, from easy to challenging

EBSCOhost
Online articles from more than 6,000 magazines and newspapers

Enciclopedia Universal en Espanol
Online Spanish language encyclopedia published by Encyclopedia Britanica

NewsBank Newspapers
Collection of full-text newspapers, including the Cincinnati Enquirrer and Cincinnati Post

Oxford Reference Online
Over 100 reference titles fully indexed and cross-searchable

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Cincinnati Public Library
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netTrekker

For at home use,
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then click on Register
to create your personal account

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Reading Corner

Reading Corner Recommendations from Amity Library

4^th Grade – Animal Story

Poppy is a young deer mouse whose troubles began when she and her mouse mate Ragweed are caught on a hill by Mr. Ocax, the owl. Without his permission, he immediately justifies his rules by killing Ragweed, and Poppy manages to scrape an escape from his deadly talons.
After another terrifying encounter with Mr. Ocax to ask permission for her entire family to move into a new farm, she is blamed on all sides by her siblings when their request was denied. Heartbroken and lonely, Poppy sets off on her own journey to ask help from a mysterious creature in the forest, the only animal that Mr. Ocax has ever feared..."

5^th Grade – Mystery

The Dark Stairs by Betsy Byars

A crime...With deduction of evidence or clues, no suspects or alibis, and no witnesses. Can this crime be solved by a little girl named Herculeah? You might think it's impossible, but guess again. A man was looking for his dad, who vanished out of nowhere. He went to the Herculeah's mom for help. Herculeah snoops around the suspected murder scene. The second time she went deep in the house. Then she heard someone come, so she hid in the closet. In the closet she smells something and falls through the wall, helping her solve the mystery with a shocking twist.

6^th Grade – Sports

Heat by Mike Lupica

Michael Arroyo grows up in the shadows of hallowed Yankee Stadium, a boy forever on the outside looking in.

His only chance to see his field of dreams? Pitch his Bronx all-star team to the district finals and a shot at the Little League World Series.
But there is a problem. Michael is good–too good. Rival coaches and players can’t believe a boy could be this good and be only twelve years old. And Michael has no way to prove it–no mother, no father, and a birth certificate that is stuck home in his native Cuba. If the people from social services find out his secret, he will have an even worse problem: being separated from the only family he knows, his older brother Carlos. Baseball can be a game of heroes, of champions who refuse to lose. Or it can be a field of crushed dreams. For one boy, the game is about to turn serious.