Subject Guides: Juvenile Literature: Articles/Databases

Juvenile Literature: Articles/Databases

How to find books, book reviews, and lists of new titles in the Juvenile Literature collection.

NoveList K-8 Plus This link opens in a new window
Find just the right book by subject, age, awards won, books made into movies, and much more. Read reviews and learn about the author. Includes tools for teachers such as Lexile levels and Common Core standards.

Database of Award Winning Children's Literature
Nifty resource that allows you to search award lists for particular types and themes of books.

Children`s Literature CD This link opens in a new window
CLDC contains critical reviews of children's books, ranging from board books to novels and nonfiction for young adults.
International Children's Digital Library This link opens in a new window
"...making the beset in children's literature available online."
Teachingbooks.net This link opens in a new window
Provides links to author and illustrator websites, lesson plans, book readings, and much more.
TumbleBook Library This link opens in a new window
Online animated and talking books for children, grades K-5.

BookFlix
A Michigan eLibrary database for children.
Books and Authors
Website to books of all genres
Database of Award Winning Children's Literature
A list of quality children's literature

Something About the Author This link opens in a new window
An easy-to-use source for librarians, students and other researchers, each volume in this series provides illustrated biographical profiles of approximately 75 children's authors and artists.
This critically acclaimed series covers more than 12,000 individuals, ranging from established award winners to authors and illustrators who are just beginning their careers. Entries typically cover: personal life, career, writings, works in progress, adaptations, additional sources
Book Review Digest and Retrospective This link opens in a new window
Provides references to more than two million fiction and nonfiction books. Coverage is from 1905-present.
Literature Online This link opens in a new window
Full-text searchable access to a wide range of English language literary works, criticism, and reference sources.
Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to literary research, including peer-reviewed journals, book reviews, biographical and topical overview essays and more.

Michigan Authors and Illustrators
From this link you can do a basic search for an author or a book using a keyword or you can use the advanced search for more specific results.

MLA International Bibliography with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Indexes articles, books, and other scholarship related to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.

Education Source This link opens in a new window
Most comprehensive databases for education research.
ERIC This link opens in a new window
Provides access to journals, conferences, government documents, reports from 1966 to present.
Education Abstract & Education Index Retrospective This link opens in a new window
Access a vast range of historical education magazines, journals and yearbooks.

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