Missing the ability to browse our shelves with your children? Let us select books for you!
You can request a maximum of one (1) bundle per child at a time. Please fill out a separate form for each book bundle.
Customized bundles will be available within 7 business days.
You will be contacted by staff when your order is ready for pickup. Your book bundle will be pre-packaged and pre-checked out to your account. Sorry, we cannot substitute individual titles in your book bundles.
We are currently only offering book bundles at the Downtown Santa Cruz Branch.
Book Bundles are available in the following categories (description below):
beginning readers
beginning chapter books
juvenile fiction
If you're looking for picture books, we already have a collection of kits! Please use a keyword search in our catalog for "read to me kit" to see a list of our ready-made picture-book kits which can be requested just like a regular book.
English Book Bundle Request Form
Spanish Book Bundle Request Form
For questions about the Book Bundles service, please:
call TelInfo at 831-427-7713
or
Email K12@santacruzpl.org
Readers
Readers contain familiar words that are easy to sound out. Level 1 are the easiest, with no more than 1 sentence per page, usually with short repeated words. Levels 2 and 3 offer increasingly complex words and longer sentences. There can be some overlap between the levels. Reader Book Bundles include 8 books.
3 Choices:
Beginning Chapter Books
Beginning Chapter Books are typically between 60 and 100 pages long. They have shorter sentences and paragraphs, fewer chapters, larger font and more illustrations than “regular” chapter books. Beginning Chapter Book Bundles include 5 books.
3 Choices:
Juvenile Fiction Books
Juvenile Fiction Books are meant for young readers (roughly between 8 and 13 years old) who are comfortable with longer works, more complex topics and grammar, and have many chapters. Juvenile Fiction Book Bundles include 3 books.
4 Choices:
The OverDrive/Northern California Digital Library collection has ebooks, eAudiobooks, and eMagazines for beginning readers, kids, teens, and adults.
OverDrive titles are compatible with most devices, including smartphones, tablets, computers, and Kindles.
Choose from two apps: The OverDrive app and Libby
In addition to the many adult titles, there are dedicated reading rooms for kids and teens.
Go to OverDrive View Tutorial Get the App
hoopla is a digital media service where you can check out movies, television, ebooks, audiobooks, and music. Thousands of titles are available for streaming or temporary download to your computer, smart phone or tablet. Check out movies for 3 days, music albums for 7 days and ebooks and audiobooks for 21 days. 5 titles per user per month.
Go to hoopla View Tutorial Get the App
Kanopy Streaming Video. Kanopy provides access to one of the most unique collections of films in the world – including award-winning documentaries, training films and theatrical releases – on every topic imaginable. Users can view 8 films per month with their account. Mobile apps and a Roku channel are available.
Go to Kanopy View Tutorial Get the App
TumbleBook Library is an online collection of TumbleBooks--animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. TumbleBooks are created by taking existing picture books, adding animation, sound, music and narration to produce an electronic picture book which you can read, or have read to you. Also included are games and puzzles. TumbleBooks are created in flash animation. You will need the Flash plug-in for your browser and a computer set up for sound.
Children's book resource, providing read alikes for both fiction and nonfiction. Find the order of titles in a series, find book recommendations by grade level, and that meet curricular standards.
Even though 2020 was a tumultuous year, authors and publishers continued to publish wonderful books for children and young adults. Here are a few lists you may want to check out:
School Library Journal Best Books of 2020
Publishers Weekly Best Books 2020
The Best Books of 2020 by Kirkus Reviews
Horn Book Fanfare - 2020 Booklist
Best Picture Books for 2020 (Available at SCPL)
Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature Best Books of 2020
Santa Cruz Public Libraries Booklist: Black Lives Matter: resources for kids, tweens, and families
Today's Parent: 27 books to help you talk to your kids about racism
EmbraceRace: 31 Children's books to support conversations on race, racism and resistance
Charis Books & More: Books to teach white children and teens ho to undo racism and white supremacy
School Library Journal: Social Justice: Fifteen titles to address inequity, equality, and organizing for young readers | Great Books
Oakland Public Library: Listen, Learn, Participate: A #BlackLivesMatter Resource Series
Common Sense Media: Books about racism and social justice
Social Justice Books: The best selection of multicultural and social justice books for children, YA, and educators.
Children's Book Council: A Collection of Juneteenth Reading Lists
Hoopla Titles (ebooks) you can borrow from SCPL:
Santa Cruz Public Libraries: LGBTQ Books
Social Justice Books: LGBTQ+
American Library Association: The 2020 Rainbow Book List
Common Sense Media: LGBTQ Books
We Are Teachers: 30 Children’s Books with LGBT Characters
Somos Familia: Entre Nos (Between Us) is an animated novela about family acceptance.
Missing the ability to browse our shelves with your children? Let us select books for you!
You can request a maximum of one (1) bundle per child at a time. Please fill out a separate form for each book bundle.
Customized bundles will be available within 7 business days.
You will be contacted by staff when your order is ready for pickup. Your book bundle will be pre-packaged and pre-checked out to your account. Sorry, we cannot substitute individual titles in your book bundles.
We are currently only offering book bundles at the Downtown Santa Cruz Branch.
Book Bundles are available in the following categories (description below):
beginning readers
beginning chapter books
juvenile fiction
If you're looking for picture books, we already have a collection of kits! Please use a keyword search in our catalog for "read to me kit" to see a list of our ready-made picture-book kits which can be requested just like a regular book.
English Book Bundle Request Form
Spanish Book Bundle Request Form
For questions about the Book Bundles service, please:
call TelInfo at 831-427-7713
or
Email K12@santacruzpl.org
Readers
Readers contain familiar words that are easy to sound out. Level 1 are the easiest, with no more than 1 sentence per page, usually with short repeated words. Levels 2 and 3 offer increasingly complex words and longer sentences. There can be some overlap between the levels. Reader Book Bundles include 8 books.
3 Choices:
Beginning Chapter Books
Beginning Chapter Books are typically between 60 and 100 pages long. They have shorter sentences and paragraphs, fewer chapters, larger font and more illustrations than “regular” chapter books. Beginning Chapter Book Bundles include 5 books.
3 Choices:
Juvenile Fiction Books
Juvenile Fiction Books are meant for young readers (roughly between 8 and 13 years old) who are comfortable with longer works, more complex topics and grammar, and have many chapters. Juvenile Fiction Book Bundles include 3 books.
4 Choices:
The OverDrive/Northern California Digital Library collection has ebooks, eAudiobooks, and eMagazines for beginning readers, kids, teens, and adults.
OverDrive titles are compatible with most devices, including smartphones, tablets, computers, and Kindles.
Choose from two apps: The OverDrive app and Libby
In addition to the many adult titles, there are dedicated reading rooms for kids and teens.
Go to OverDrive View Tutorial Get the App
hoopla is a digital media service where you can check out movies, television, ebooks, audiobooks, and music. Thousands of titles are available for streaming or temporary download to your computer, smart phone or tablet. Check out movies for 3 days, music albums for 7 days and ebooks and audiobooks for 21 days. 5 titles per user per month.
Go to hoopla View Tutorial Get the App
Kanopy Streaming Video. Kanopy provides access to one of the most unique collections of films in the world – including award-winning documentaries, training films and theatrical releases – on every topic imaginable. Users can view 8 films per month with their account. Mobile apps and a Roku channel are available.
Go to Kanopy View Tutorial Get the App
TumbleBook Library is an online collection of TumbleBooks--animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. TumbleBooks are created by taking existing picture books, adding animation, sound, music and narration to produce an electronic picture book which you can read, or have read to you. Also included are games and puzzles. TumbleBooks are created in flash animation. You will need the Flash plug-in for your browser and a computer set up for sound.
Children's book resource, providing read alikes for both fiction and nonfiction. Find the order of titles in a series, find book recommendations by grade level, and that meet curricular standards.
Even though 2020 was a tumultuous year, authors and publishers continued to publish wonderful books for children and young adults. Here are a few lists you may want to check out:
School Library Journal Best Books of 2020
Publishers Weekly Best Books 2020
The Best Books of 2020 by Kirkus Reviews
Horn Book Fanfare - 2020 Booklist
Best Picture Books for 2020 (Available at SCPL)
Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature Best Books of 2020
Santa Cruz Public Libraries Booklist: Black Lives Matter: resources for kids, tweens, and families
Today's Parent: 27 books to help you talk to your kids about racism
EmbraceRace: 31 Children's books to support conversations on race, racism and resistance
Charis Books & More: Books to teach white children and teens ho to undo racism and white supremacy
School Library Journal: Social Justice: Fifteen titles to address inequity, equality, and organizing for young readers | Great Books
Oakland Public Library: Listen, Learn, Participate: A #BlackLivesMatter Resource Series
Common Sense Media: Books about racism and social justice
Social Justice Books: The best selection of multicultural and social justice books for children, YA, and educators.
Children's Book Council: A Collection of Juneteenth Reading Lists
Hoopla Titles (ebooks) you can borrow from SCPL:
Santa Cruz Public Libraries: LGBTQ Books
Social Justice Books: LGBTQ+
American Library Association: The 2020 Rainbow Book List
Common Sense Media: LGBTQ Books
We Are Teachers: 30 Children’s Books with LGBT Characters
Somos Familia: Entre Nos (Between Us) is an animated novela about family acceptance.
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