World Book Online is a subscription service provided for the students of the School District of Waukesha. Contact your child's school library media specialist for a user name and password if accessing from home. Features include:

• more than 25,000 encyclopedia articles and 1,800 tables
• more than 100 animations and videos
• more than 10,000 pictures (photographs, animal illustrations, and reproductions of works of art)
• approximately 10,000 audio clips (bird songs, popular & classical music, word pronunciations, and more)
• 500 maps in the online atlas cover the whole globe interactively
• approximately 13,000 "you-are-there" accounts of significant historic events from past Year Books
• approximately 248,000 dictionary entries

World Book Student Resources provide a collection of tools and information to aid you in finding topics for study, conducting research, and reporting in writing or by speech.

World Book Parent Resources help parents help their children with schoolwork.

Use Surf the Ages to dip into imaginary news sites from Ancient Times, The Middle Ages, or Modern Times. Then, link to dozens of e-zines, want ads, bookstores, and other types of simulated Web sites, written from the perspective of the time.  Today in History showcases important persons or events associated with that date.

The nearly 500 in-depth Special Reports focus on issues surrounding timely topics, important current events, and obituaries of famous people. Users can search or browse for topics or find links to Special Reports in the Related Information box within many World Book articles.

Features of the Month provide help for school projects with these special online features filled with World Book articles, multimedia, and interactive quizzes.

The Media Showcase demonstrates the richness of World Book's media, and how many users' questions can be answered by the media.