eLibraryUSA: Grolier Online

A collection of nonfiction content targeted for ages 7 and up. The collection includes over 120,000 articles from general reference encyclopedias like New Book of Knowledge, science intensive encyclopedias like New Book of Popular Science, social studies encyclopedias like Lands and Peoples, and La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre, a comprehensive encyclopedia for Spanish speakers. Additional content includes GoTube Videos, over 340,000 editor vetted web links, over 1,100 newspapers from around the world and over 1200 interactive maps which provide history, topography, political climate, current events, and more.

Grolier Online from Scholastic includes eight encyclopedia databases: Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre, The New Book of Popular Science, America the Beautiful, Amazing Animals of the World, and Lands and Peoples. Its content also includes streaming videos, worldwide newspapers and maps.

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Haiti Says No to Plastic
The Caribbean nation goes green to help clean up the damaged country.
By Jared Brenes

The Caribbean nation of Haiti has a major garbage problem. Plastic bags and other waste litter many of Haiti's streets. Trash has also clogged the canals of the capital city, Port-au-Prince, for years. Now, the Haitian government is leading an effort to clean up the country. It has banned black plastic bags and foam containers, which make up much of this garbage.

Plastic and foam are hazardous to the environment. Animals can get entangled in garbage, which may cause suffocation. They can also be poisoned if they eat it. In addition, these materials are not biodegradable. This means they can take hundreds of years to break down.

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Today is November 4

Born on This Day:
1841: Benjamin F. Goodrich, founder of the rubber-goods company that became B. F. Goodrich.

1876: James Earle Fraser, who created some of the best-known sculpture in the United States, including the reliefs of a buffalo and an Indian's head for the nickel issued in 1913.

1879: Will Rogers, the American humorist and actor famous for his witty, homespun commentaries on contemporary events delivered in between rope tricks with a lasso; he said, "All I know is what I read in the papers."

1882: Robert Douglas, the longtime coach and owner (1922–49) of the New York Renaissance—commonly called the Rens—the first professional basketball team composed entirely of African American players.

1916: Walter Cronkite, the anchor of CBS Evening News from 1962 to 1981 and often called the most trusted journalist in the United States.