Reading Resources

Borrow ebooks and audiobooks from our school's online library with Sora! Log in with your Stevenson username, email, and ​ ​ ​ ​ password.

Harrison Memorial Library Don’t have a library card? Lost ​ your card? Don’t live in Carmel-by-the-Sea? You can still get a digital card! Fill out the online registration form and ​ ​ ​ library staff will email you your library card number. With your digital card, you can listen to an audiobook and check out an ​ ​ ebook! ​ Scribd is offering 30 days free! Scribd opened its digital library ​ ​ free for the next 30-days through a special link. No credit card or ​ ​ subscription commitment required.

Audible launched Audible Stories, a free service that offers ​ ​ ​ educational and entertaining audiobook content for kids, teens, and families.

If you are an Amazon Prime member, Prime Reading offers a ​ ​ range of free books!

Riveted Teen offers a large selection of free ebooks! ​

Chirp is a service that gives you amazing limited-time deals on ​ select digital audiobooks and great everyday pricing on everything else. All books you purchase are yours to keep, and, unlike many other audiobook services, there are no monthly subscription fees or minimum purchases.

Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Choose ​ among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, with a focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired.

Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building ​ ​ towards a web page for every book ever published.

Other Bookish News & Resources

Hogwarts Digital Escape Room created by the Pennsylvania Library. ​

Grace Lin’s Channel Grace Lin (author of Where the Mountain Meets the Moon) reads from ​ ​ ​ her books and teaches a few drawing lessons!

Kids Ask Authors: A podcast where kids ask authors their burning questions! ​

International Children’s Digital Library offers children’s literature from around the world ​ ​ written in multiple languages.

Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems: Mo is doing a “doodle” hour every day from 1:00 to 2:00 ​ p.m. Eastern time weekdays. He will take questions on his work or look at your own doodle (available live for two more weeks). You can also access the archive of previously recorded shows. A great way to get to know this Author/Illustrator.

Kwame Alexander is sharing reading and writing resources on his website. ​

Laurie Halse Anderson has set up a Twitter hashtag #QuarantRead book club where ​ readers can ask her questions.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka is sharing illustration videos on YouTube every weekday at 2:00 p.m. ​ ​ ​

Stimola Live is a website of live stream events for kids, tweens, and teens by professional ​ authors and illustrators represented by Stimola Literary Studio. Events will be streamed live from a variety of platforms and archived on the Stimola Live YouTube Channel. ​ ​

Storyline Online publishes professionally produced children’s books read by actors. ​

Author Kate Messner has collaborated with authors to compile ever-growing resources for ​ at-home reading and learning:

Reading & Learning for Primary Grades Reading & Learning for Grades 6-8 Reading & Learning for Grades 9+

Over 30 Virtual Field Trips with Links from the American Association of School Librarians. ​

Common Sense Media curated author read-alouds, drawing lessons, dance & music lessons, ​ and more!