
For Parents: Getting Started with Biblionasium
A step-by-step guide to help students get started in Biblionasium.
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We do not have books on the website for kids to read. On Biblionasium, children can rate, review, and recommend books to their community. They can also log their reading and participate in reading challenges. However, due to copyright, students will need to obtain the books from other sources.
Beyond school and public libraries, we recommend that you review the following sources to consider recommending to your students for reading books online:
Project Gutenberg – A library of over 60,000 free e-books in the public domain
Overdrive – a resource where you can download e-books and audiobooks for free if you have a library card
Unite for Literacy – free digital picture books for kids
First, check your spam or junk folder to make sure the email isn’t there. If you do not see the confirmation email in your spam folder, please email us and we will manually confirm your account and issue a temporary password.

A step-by-step guide to help students get started in Biblionasium.

Note: at the time of making this video, 6 columns were required to bulk upload students, including a reading level field. This field no longer exists. To bulk upload students, please include the following 5 columns: Last Name or Initial, First Name, Username, Password, and Parent Email.
To access your groups, at the top or side of the page, click Then, select the group you wish to edit. You will notice two fields in each group. One is the group name and the other is the group’s unique code. The group name is editable, but the code is automatically generated by
Teacher-Librarian collaboration makes a huge impact on students’ engagement with Biblionasium. Find out how Ms. Jennifer Lewis and the classroom teachers at her school encourage their students to flex their reading muscles!
Zilker Elementary School in Austin, Texas uses a hybrid of written reviews and Biblionasium to give students a sense of accomplishment for reading. Check out what Mrs. White had to say about the program.