LibGuides: FAIR School Crystal Library Media Center: 8th Grade

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MackinVia Ebooks and Audiobooks Find ebooks and audiobooks on a wide variety of topics. Includes popular fiction. To login, pull-down the menu to your school and enter your school network username and password.

Library Catalog: FAIR
Find books, ebooks, videos and web sites in the FAIR Crystal Library catalog.

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HCL: How to get a library card
HCL: Novelist Plus for Grade 9 + (Book recommendations) Information and resources to find fiction and nonfiction titles. Includes author read-alikes, discussion guides, reviews and articles. For grade 9+ readers. Requires a Hennepin County Library card.

Britannica Academic Edition This link opens in a new window Encyclopedia content plus multimedia, timelines, world data analyst, country comparison, and the Britannica blog.

Gale In Context: High School (Student Resources In Context) This link opens in a new window
Contains articles, on a very wide range of topics, from newspapers, magazines, journals and reference collections. Includes audio segments.

CIA: World Factbook
This resource provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.
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CIA World Factbook - Search for Maps
Your portal to a variety of world, regional, country, ocean, and time zone maps.
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National Geographic Website - Search for information by Country
Use the search tool to find articles, images, videos, maps and more. Just type in your country name and hit the search bar.
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Interactive Mapmaker - National Geographic