Launchpads are curated with collections of learning apps and videos grouped by age. No Wi-Fi is needed - just start it up and it's ready to go.
Loan Period and Procedures
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Launchpad Academy employs a 5-level guided reading system, facilitating children in mastering verbal, reading, and writing skills from any starting point. Each app, storybook, and video within the Academy's offerings has been carefully chosen to assist children in acquiring the necessary knowledge for transitioning from the initial stages of learning-to-read to the advanced stage of reading-to-learn. This structured digital learning approach ensures that kids develop skills step by step, using a multimodal strategy tailored to their individual learning preferences.
Check out a new way to read Wonderbooks. Browse all our Wonderbooks here!
Wonderbooks are a print book with a ready-to-play audiobook inside. Kids can just press play to read or sing along with their favorite books. Then switch to Learning Mode for literacy learning and comprehension questions to check your young reader’s understanding of the story.
Turn the pages and read along as the embedded audio player reads the book out loud.
Some Wonderbooks, like Old MacDonald Had A Farm, even sing the story to you!
Research shows that hearing and seeing words at the same time can improve reading success rates.
Wonderbooks give kids an edge with vocabulary development, phonics, and comprehension, plus encourages deeper engagement with every book.
View the games that are currently available in the basket of cards located in Teenburgh, or click here to view all the games Greenburgh Library owns in the library's online catalog.
How to borrow a video game:
Take the card of the video game from the basket and bring it to the circulation desk downstairs!
Borrowing time:
2 weeks, no renewals
3 games maximum can be borrowed at once.
We carry games for the following systems:
We do not lend out game systems, but they can be requested to use in the library.
The following gaming systems can be used in the library:
If you request a game system to use in the library, you are responsible for setting it up and putting it away. Please let library staff know if game controllers are low on battery power when you finish using the game system so the controllers can be charged.
If you use a library game in the library, you must check it out first! Doing this helps to prevent another patron from trying to borrow a game that is currently being played in the library.
Thank you, and happy gaming!
Tutor.com is a live, on-demand, one-on-one tutoring service for grades K - 1st year college, adult learners and job seekers. Adult learners and job seekers will find tutors and test prep for the GED/HiSET, and U.S.Citizenship, plus job searching online, resume review, interview preparation and more.
Access is free via your library card number and PIN.
Learn a new language with this interactive database that provides step by step lesson plans for 71 different languages. While rote memorization has its place, Mango does more. Through a wide variety of adaptable exercises and learning activities, learners pick up on new vocabulary, intuit unfamiliar grammatical structures, train pronunciation, and boost their cultural IQ. A text translator is provided.
A Westchester Library card is required.
iOS App | Android App | Kindle Fire
The Tumblebook Library is a fun and interactive library of animated, talking story books for preschoolers, beginner readers and older independent readers too. Hundreds of full-color animated books in which words are highlighted as they are read aloud, many with musical accompaniment are available. Topics from fairy tales to science facts offer fun for children from preschool age through 6th grade. Also available in Spanish.