Digital Library Resources: myON

myON provides tools to support readers on a variety of levels. There are quizzes at the end of a book to assess and increase comprehension, a dictionary, audio reader, journal and much more. Illustrations are vibrant and the audio is engaging in each of the fiction and non-fiction text across all topics and themes.  Click below to keep reading and log on.

Digital Library Resources: Junior Library Guild

The NYC Department of Education has begun a distance learning effort to slow the spread of COVID-19.  

We,  the Passages Academy school librarians,  are considering our students’ needs and  hope they will have access to wi-fi in the days and weeks ahead.  

However,  at last word the students did not have access from their residences and detention centers,  and thus we hope that will change as soon as possible.

For now  we’re working hard to create the best library and information resources for our students,  and hope to have a digital school library platform

 available by the end of the week.  

In the meantime, Junior Library Guild has generously made their ebook collections available to all.  Their selections of approximately 40 items for elementary, middle, and high school readers include a Passages favorite, The Nazi Hunters , as well as the intriguing Unusual Creatures and several biographies, including Heather E. Schwartz’s Lin Manuel Miranda: Revolutionary Playwright, Composer and Actor and a biography-in-context from World Book on Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 

Click here to start reading. --Jessica Fenster-Sparber

Update: Coronavirus

Hello readers!

The Passages Academy Library Team would like to tell everyone that we are here during this challenging time we all face with the Covid-19 virus. Please continue to check in as we will continue our efforts to publish resources for our readers. 

We urge you to stay safe, and take great care of yourselves.--Claudio Leon, Jamila Abdulrashid, and Jessica Fenster-Sparber

Programming Spotlight: Drumfolk

Belmont chaperones at the New Victory Theater.  Photo credit: Njeri Johnson-Smalls

Last Friday most of Passages Academy's Belmont site attended a performance of Drumfolk at the New Victory Theater.   Exclaimed one student in a post-performace evaluation, "They could get lit!"--Jessica Fenster-Sparber