The top ten digital novel sets OverDrive school partners are using with their students
By Adam Sockel, OverDrive’s Social Media Specialist For as long as there have been schools there have been class-assigned books to be read. Curriculum directors and teachers have meetings to decide what books to teach that year and then students are handed out copies of…
AudioFile Reviews: Untwine by Edwidge Danticat
By our friends at Audiofile Magazine. Bahni Turpin’s narration of the author’s first YA title begins dreamily, wistfully as Giselle lies alone in a hospital bed, trying to piece together what has occurred. She and her twin sister, Isabelle, were born holding hands, as they…
Manteca Unified School District blends technology into their curriculum
By Anne Steiner, District Librarian from Manteca Unified School District and Adam Sockel, Social Media Specialist with OverDrive Manteca Unified School District recently launched their OverDrive digital collection intended to help get their school community excited about reading through their Going Digital project. The district…
Outreach resources for your school community
By Christina Samek, a Launch Specialist on the OverDrive School Partner Services team. In life, there’s no such thing as an easy button. There’s no lightbulb overhead that indicates an idea is a good one. We are often putting stock into our instincts, following our…
OverDrive Read-Along eBooks: perfect for your young students and readers
By: Adam Sockel, OverDrive’s Social Media Specialist It’s hard to believe but the calendar has inched towards October, signifying both the end of summer and back to school time for students of all ages. You can take advantage of our Back to School sale to…
Win big with OverDrive’s “In The Classroom” Contest!
We’re excited to announce the 2015 “In The Classroom” content where schools can win content credit by showing how you’re using and promoting your OverDrive services with your students and your curriculum. One of the best ways to get students reading is enable them to…
Big Library Read returns in October with two great titles
The Big Library Read is coming back in October and, due to the overwhelming response to our voting survey, we’ve decided to make this the first ever Big Library Read with two titles. The genre this time around is Young Adult and the winning titles…
OverDrive and Pearson bring digital textbooks to Napa Valley Unified School District students
Students at Napa Valley Unified School District’s (NVUSD) high schools in Napa and American Canyon, California, will be able to access their math textbooks digitally using iPads, Chromebooks or other devices, beginning this month for the 2015-2016 school year. Thanks to a new partnership with…
Get ready for Read an eBook Day at your library!
While every day here at OverDrive is read an eBook day, the official Read an eBook Day is happening again this year on September 18th. Launched last year as a celebration of modern storytelling, Read an eBook Day is a great opportunity to get the…
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein: A perfect back to school book club read
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein is a New York Times Bestseller and has received starred reviews from both Booklist (“An ode to libraries and literature that is a worthy successor to the original madman puzzle-master himself, Willy Wonka.”) and Kirkus (“Full of…
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