Media Center

Hill City Elementary School's library/media center's goal is to promote a love of reading for enjoyment and for knowledge through collaboration with learners, teachers, administrators, and parents. Our media center inspires readers to find enjoyment, curiosity, and knowledge through a welcoming environment and organized collection of print and digital resources. Students will feel empowered to build their literary foundation and critical thinking skills to persevere as lifelong learners and leaders in a 21st-century digital world.

Online Media Resources

Destiny Discover Logo

Destiny Discover is our library catalog. Use it to find books(both print and eBooks), and digital audio books that can be downloaded for your listening pleasure. Log in to Destiny to check your library account, make “favorites” lists and access eBooks/audiobooks.

E-Books (or electronic books) are always available.

Pebble Go Logo

PebbleGo is a curricular content hub specifically designed for K-2 students. Packed with informational articles, ready-made activities, and literacy supports for students of all abilities, it boosts engagement and fosters independent learning in core subject areas. 

*Available through student's CLEVER dashboard.

Storyline Online Logo

Storyline Online is available 24 hours a day for children, parents, caregivers and educators worldwide. Each book includes supplemental curriculum developed by a credentialed elementary educator, aiming to strengthen comprehension and verbal and written skills for English-language learners.

Story Time from Space Logo

Story Time from Space is a project of the Global Space Education Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit education foundation. Where children’s books are sent to the International Space Station. While in space, astronauts are videotaping themselves reading these books to the children of Earth. These videos are being edited and placed on this Story Time From Space website- look under the heading ” Story Time Videos”.

KidLit TV Logo

KidLit TV is a winner of the Parents’ Choice Gold Award and has been selected as an American Association of School Librarians Best Digital Tool for Teaching and Learning. KLTV is available in over 700,000 schools worldwide via our website and video distribution partners. We’re a team of parents, educators, librarians, authors, illustrators, and filmmakers creating fun ways to inspire a love of reading.

Accelerated Reader Logo

Accelerated Reader is a digital program that helps students and teachers manage and monitor independent reading practice in both English and Spanish.

Students pick a book at their own level and read it at their own pace. When students finish the book, they take a short quiz on the computer to check their understanding.

As students read and take quizzes, they earn points and track their progress toward their individualized Accelerated Reader goals.

  • Available through student's CLEVER dashboard.

Lexile Find a Book Logo

Using Lexile® Find a Book, you can easily find books that match your child’s Lexile measure, grade level or interests among the hundreds of thousands of books in this browser tool. Search filters include dozens of interest categories, books in a series and award-winning books.

Scholastic Book Wizard Logo

Scholastic Book Wizard is great resource is worth adding to your toolbox because it lets you easily search books by guided reading level system, genre, and grade. You can find children's books to meet their instructional needs, customize search by reading level, genre, subject and interest level, level their books, and suggest titles to motivate independent reading by their students.

Reference and Research Resources

GALILEO Logo

GALILEO, Georgia’s virtual library, is an online library portal to authoritative, trustworthy information that isn’t available through free search engines or internet directories.

You don’t need a password to access GALILEO when you’re at school or if you get there through Clever when you’re off-campus.

Merriam-Webster Logo

Merriam-Webster Student Dictionary for Kids is an online dictionary written specifically for young students.

Kid Thesaurus Logo

Kid Thesaurus is a kid friendly thesaurus that allows students to find synonyms easily.

Games

Shelve-It! Logo

Shelver is a game that practices how books are shelved in the Fiction and Non-fiction sections of the media center.

Videos