FVRL Resources

Participate in reading challenges, track your reading, write book reviews, and more. Create a Beanstack account for yourself and/or children and keep using it even in between official FVRLibraries challenges! Choose any or all of these options:

• Add your reading doorways/preferences.
• Request weekly recommendations based on your doorways.
• Share an account with family, teachers, and friends to grant access to recommendations, reading log, and badges. Keep them up-to-date or give them the opportunity to collaborate.
• Create a wish list by adding titles or finding titles in provided reading lists.
• View pages in other languages (like español, Русский, or 中文) by using the Google Select Language drop-down in the lower right corner of the page.

Search for people in articles and books, based on personal facts such as name, birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation, and gender.

Find historical newspaper articles, pamphlets, diaries, correspondence, and more from specific time periods in U.S. history marked by the opposition African Americans have faced on the road to freedom. Materials may be used for homework assignments, personal inquiry, research papers, and National History Day-type projects focused on African American history in the U.S.

Enjoy Booklist’s new magazine for readers, featuring diverse readers' advisory recommendations, in print and on audio, for readers of all ages. Read the current issue or back issues!

New: Brainfuse HelpNow! at FVRLibraries
Access live tutoring, writing support, study tools, and more for students of all ages. Includes college readiness, flashcards, career exploration, and collaborative study options. Start learning today!

Get live help between 1:00 and 10:00 pm with a variety of subjects for K-12 students and adults. Create a personal account to track your progress, do group work, and share documents for writing reviews.

Britannica ImageQuest has more than two million images that may be used in assignments, activities, projects, and other non-commercial educational uses. Also offers video clips that can be downloaded and used to create video projects.

Find articles, pictures, and videos about animals, arts, language, places, plants, science & math, social studies, sports, and religions. Even tour the USA or compare countries!

Search or browse articles, media, biographies, and a world atlas for information on both academic subjects and personal interests. Start with Research Tools and Materials if you're doing academic research.

Find articles, images, videos, and biographies for high school students in a variety of subjects. Start with Research Tools and Materials if you're working on a paper or report.

Research companies, the products and technologies they produce, and the markets in which they compete. Results include summaries and full text from business and trade journals, industry newsletters, newspapers, market research studies, news releases, and investment and brokerage firm reports.

One title of particular interest is The Economist. You can even use the feature "Create Journal Alert" to receive notifications when articles from new issues are published!