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Literacy Resources

"Developing foundational competency including reading, writing, math, job application assistance, and overall life-skill development. Also includes STEM (Science Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) knowledge building on basic skills and concepts."

  • Welcoming the Stranger is an educational non-profit that offers free classes in English as a Second Language (ESL), computer skills, and United States citizenship exam preparation to adult immigrants and refugees in the Philadelphia metro region. Classes have been offered in Bensalem, Doylestown, Hatboro, Harleysville, Lambertville, Langhorne, Levittown, Morrisville, Newtown, Northeast Philadelphia, Southampton, and Warminster.​

Welcoming the Stranger - ESL

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  • The Mango Language Database is a digital program you can use free with a library card designed to help you with learning a second language or learning English as a Second Language (ESL).

    • If your library card says "North Wales Area Library" you can access mango through the "eResources" page on our website.

    • If your library card says "Montgomery County - Norristown Public Library" you must access mango through the "eResources" page on MC-NPLs website at http://mnl.mclinc.org/esources/.

Mango Language Services - ESL/Language Classes

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POWER Library Libby Collections: What’s Included?

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All Access: Cornerstone Collection is the ultimate subscription for tweens and teens! The Cornerstone Collection offers over 900 engaging titles for ages 9+.

  • Biographies & Autobiographies

  • Fiction

  • Hi-Lo

  • Science & Nature

  • Sports & Recreation

  • STEAM

  • World & Culture

  • Young Adult

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All Access Kids: Building Block Library supports early literacy with the complete All Access Kids: Building Blocks Library, a simultaneous use package with over 800 titles for pleasure or proficiency growth reading.

  • Emotional Well-Being

  • Graphic Nonfiction

  • Animals & Nature

  • STEM

  • Beginning Readers

 

All Access Comics includes 5,000+ comics and graphic novels

  • Disney

  • Marvel

  • IDW

  • Image

  • Dark Horse

 

All Access Romance includes a rotating collection of over 1,000 romance novels with no wait periods.

 

Duke Classics includes over 4,000 classic titles, both in ebook and eaudio.

 

Blackstone Audio Books includes 100 titles.

 

Tantor Media Audio Books includes 100 titles.

 

W.H. Howe Adult Audio Books includes 200 titles​.

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