Final days to enter School Stars 2025: Submissions due Mar. 28
By: Emily Balser, Integrated Marketing Specialist March is such an exciting time in the school year. In many places in the United States, we’re starting to feel the beginning phases of spring push through winter’s cold grasp. Spring break is right around the corner, and…
Help students find their own voice during Be An Author Month!
March is Be An Author Month, and the Sora reading platform is excited to partner with Book Creator to bring literacy to life for students everywhere. What is Be An Author Month? Simply put, March is a month dedicated to literacy! We celebrate National Reading…
Our K-12 Resource Center got an upgrade!
By: Emily Balser, Integrated Marketing Specialist The OverDrive Resource Center is a wealth of no-cost resources that you can use to promote Sora to your school community in all kinds of different ways – and it just got a major upgrade! If you aren’t yet…
With Sora’s new Reading Goals, reaching new reading heights is easier than ever!
Set students on a mission to reach their reading potential with Sora’s newest feature, Reading Goals! Transform literacy engagement with Reading Goals Reading Goals is a new way to encourage students to take ownership of their reading growth and motivate them along the way. It…
Still missing these 2025 YMA winners and honorees? 🏅 Get them in Sora today!
During this year’s LibLearnX conference in January, the American Library Association (ALA) announced winners and honorees for the 2025 Youth Media Awards (YMAs), honoring exceptional books for children and young adults released in 2024. When a book has a decorated resume, it doesn’t just make…
Snap. Share. Sora! Are you the next School Stars winner?
By: Emily Balser, Integrated Marketing Specialist You’ve been hard at work all school year promoting your school’s library and Sora digital collection to your students and community. Now, it’s time to snap, share, and show off what you’ve been working on! Our School Stars contest…
New integration makes combining books in Sora with TeachingBooks resources easier than ever
Connecting your reading enrichment resources with your district’s ebooks and audiobooks is now easier than ever, thanks to a new integration between TeachingBooks and the Sora reading platform. This new integration allows districts that have both a TeachingBooks license and an active Sora platform to…
Curriculum books for Australian schools are seamlessly delivered on Sora
With a recent Grattan Institute report estimating a staggering one third of Australian students lack reading proficiency, ensuring students have seamless, anytime access to curriculum-aligned reading materials is more important than ever. The Sora team is committed to providing more access to all reading materials,…
Welcome the Year of the Snake with limited-time discounts on Chinese-language digital books
This week, more than one billion people worldwide will celebrate the Lunar New Year, closing out the Year of the Dragon and ushering in the Year of the Snake with festive fireworks, food, and – as always – the lucky color red. With the start…
9 books your teen students will love if they’re obsessed with “XO, Kitty”
By: Nahomy Ortiz-Garcia, Social Media Specialist Are your high school readers head over heels for Jenny Han’s To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before streaming spinoff XO, Kitty? Are they laughing at all the drama, swooning over love triangles, and dreaming of adventures in South…