Paul R. Baird Middle School

is the online Young Adult community created by Simon & Schuster’s teen fiction arm. Each month, Riveted offers a new range of Free Reads. Most of these titles are “extended excerpts” of YA novels, but they also have a few full length novels and will also throw in a few full short stories from up-and-coming authors. And as a kicker, they offer a full free ebook to all new subscribers.

Read ebooks or listen to audiobooks from the public library's digital collection. All you need is your public library card number. Most of these can only be checked out by one person at a time, but there are some that are always available. Read on your Chromebook, phone, tablet, or ereader using the Libby app.

Right now, kids everywhere can instantly stream an incredible collection of stories, including titles across eight different languages, that will help them continue dreaming, learning, and just being kids. All stories are free to stream - no account needed - on your desktop, laptop, phone or tablet. BMS students should look in the Teen, Tween, and Elementary sections. Yes, the Elementary section has things even 8th graders will like.

Epic is the leading digital reading platform—built on a collection of 40,000+ popular, high-quality books from 250+ of the world’s best publishers. It has ebooks and audiobooks that you can read on your Chromebook. To read for free, your teacher must create an account and put you in their classes. A parent can also purchase access for a small fee.

The Boston Public Library offers free eCards to any Massachusetts resident over the age of 13. This eCard gives you access to all of their online resources, including eBooks and audiobooks.
Any Massachusetts resident who has a BPL eCard has access to eBooks and comics through Hoopla, newspapers and magazines through PressReader, and audiobooks and magazines through RBDigital. All of these can be accessed through the BPL's website.

Hoopla is available with a BPL e-card. It's an incredible resource with eBooks, comics, audiobooks, music, movies and TV shows! All the content is simultaneous use, as well, which means you'll never see "unavailable." Download the free app or go to the site.

Access thousands of free & discounted bestselling ebooks and sign up for alerts for new ebook discounts every day. To access this site and its thousands of available eBooks, you need to create an account, but it’s totally free. Once you’ve created an account, the site prompts you to pick your favorite genres so that it can provide the best reading recommendations. Not only does BookBub let you access plenty of free books online, but it also offers you great deals on bestsellers, alerting you when big-name titles are available online (for a limited time) for 75 percent or more off. (Some of the sections, such as "Dark Romance & Erotica," may include mature subject matter or content that may not be appropriate for children under 18 years of age. If you are under 18 years of age you are not permitted to access such content).

Wattpad is an e-reading website that connects a community of 80 million readers and writers. Original books are uploaded directly for the platform for users to read. You have to create an account to read the books and before you get attached to one book, know that there are some books you have to pay to read. (Wattpad Services are only for people 13 years old and over).