By Bob Hassett

With a clean, enticing layout; simplicity of navigation; and a significant database of projects linked to a range of content areas, Lerner Maker Lab is a useful resource for elementary classroom teachers and subject specialists.

Rosen's series of enhanced ebooks focuses on ecological challenges, including air quality and plastic pollution, as well as social concerns such as education, mental and physical health, poverty, and the ­COVID-19 pandemic.

Rich and intuitively designed, clearly written, and abundantly illustrated, Rosen's Spotlight on Global Issues, a collection of ebooks on pressing social or scientific challenges, is a useful resource for young citizen activists.

Formerly known as Issues & Controversies in American History, this updated and significantly expanded research database frames historical topics as debates between two contrasting perspectives.

One of several ebook subscription packages available within Weigl Publishers’ AV2 imprint, World Languages provides digital access to more than 100 nonfiction early reader texts, each offered in 12 languages.

Bringing nonfiction print and ­ebooks together with related interactive multimedia, Lightbox is a digital platform for reading or research across all grade levels and multiple content areas.

EyeDiscover is a set of “media-enhanced” nonfiction ebooks, serving as a stand-alone platform for young readers, kindergarten through second grade, or as an extension or complement to corresponding print books from the same publisher, AV2.

Sets of digital resources organized around particular topics, LaunchPacks offer learning resources on everything from Mae Jemison to the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Like other databases in Gale’s growing In Context suite, this one offers a simple, standardized search interface for a large set of Gale resources, including print articles from a variety of publications, as well as videos and more than 16,000 images.