The State Library of Kansas works with Kansas libraries to provide digital library books for all residents, which includes downloadable audiobooks and eBooks. Most require a Kansas Library eCard for use. As the librarian for your school, you can act as an administrator and create eCards for you students and staff.
Browse by audience: Teen Fiction, Teen Nonfiction, Kids Fiction, Kids Nonfiction
Audiobooks and e-books available
Search: Juvenile
Search: Juvenile or Young Adult
Use Sunflower eLibrary with a card from your local public library.
Schools can also sign up with CKLS to establish access to SORA.
Sora is an award-winning digital reading app that empowers K-12 students to discover age-appropriate ebooks, audiobooks and more from their school library. Backed by the largest, most diverse catalog of digital books available to schools, Sora provides students and educators unified access to curriculum titles, leisure reading, professional development books and the public library. Students can access grade level appropriate materials directly through the app. Contact the CKLS Director for more information.
CKLS funds these resources for our members to use at no cost.
The Library of Congress’ selection of digitized books includes illustrated children’s classics for readers of all ages. The Library of Congress also makes available millions of primary sources for free online. To assist educators in teaching with primary sources, the Library offers classroom materials to help teachers engage students with content and develop critical thinking skills.
Sign up for Bookshare, a free program supported by the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs that provides free reading materials to anyone who has a print disability that keeps them from reading traditional print materials. An eligible Bookshare member would be someone with a visual impairment, a physical disability that impinges on reading ability, or a learning disability.
The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s award-winning children’s literacy website, Storyline Online, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Readers include Viola Davis, Chris Pine, Lily Tomlin, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, James Earl Jones, Betty White and dozens more.
Storyline Online is available 24 hours a day for children, parents, caregivers and educators worldwide. Each book includes supplemental curriculum developed by a credentialed elementary educator, aiming to strengthen comprehension and verbal and written skills for English-language learners.
Storyline Online is a program of the SAG-AFTRA Foundation. The Foundation is a nonprofit organization that relies entirely on gifts, grants and donations to fund Storyline Online and produce all of its videos. They ask you to subscribe and/or donate but you can view the stories being read at no cost. The videos are played with YouTube or SchoolTube.
First Book is a non-profit social enterprise committed to elevating educational opportunities for children in need. They believe that educators should have access to all the resources they need to help these children succeed, including books, school supplies and other essentials. This sight is a treasure-trove of resources for promoting reading in our schools.
This program requires parents to reach out to a teacher, librarian, or other eligible person to sign up for First Book to get the code that will then give each child access to 10 books at a time through the free Open eBooks app. This awesome program is available to low-income families with kids ages 4-18 and it is filled with books that are still in copyright – which means tons of best sellers and contemporary titles! Definitely worth checking out.
This Rosetta Project site is an online library of antique illustrated children’s books. Books are indexed by reading level: pre-reader, early reader, intermediate reader, advanced reader, adult reader, and foreign language reader.
A quick and easy way to see what is available for free on the Kindle.