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ABCmouse.com: With more than 4,000 interactive books, educational games, puzzles, and other learning activities, ABCmouse.com’s award-winning online curriculum is the most comprehensive online educational resource for young learners (ages 2–7+). From Age of Learning, Inc. Free for use in our library.

Information about books and authors.

A leading multidisciplinary research database. It provides acclaimed full-text journals, magazines and other valuable resources.

Use this website to help find books based on your Accelerated Reading or Lexile Reading Level. Available throught the library catalog. 

This digital resource is exclusively devoted to African American family history research. Also includes exclusive access to AfriGeneas and an updated, online edition of the book Black Genesis.

A trusted source and recognized standard for patient drug information, available in both English and Spanish.

A full-text alternative health research database focused on complementary, holistic, and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. 

Contains many works of poetry, drama, and prose based on books and other sources originally published in print. It also contains 21 historic editions of the Bible in English.

( In-library use only) U. S. Census records; military records; court, land and probate records; vital and church records; directories; petitions for naturalization; passenger lists and more. You must be in the library to access this database.

World-class instruction through self-paced video lessons taught by highly accomplished and Grammy Award–winning music and art professionals. ArtistWorks for Libraries offers instrumental and voice classes, from basic courses to intermediate instruction to advanced lessons.  Patrons will need to log in with your Perry County District Library card on this database.  Once you're logged in, navigate to "Extras" and access this database from there.  You will need to sign-in using an email and password as well.

Hungry to learn about American cuisine? Visit to learn about foods from around the country!

The world at your fingertips.  Check out a huge collection of maps of all kinds, including historical, from around the world

Database regarding information for the USA and all 50 States. 

The world's largest database of global food culture and recipes. 

Where do you want to go today?  Visit AtoZ World Travel to learn about the countries of the world!