Research Guides: Children's and Young Adult Literature: Learning about Children's and Young Adult Literature

Miriam DesHarnais

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Subjects: Education, Elementary Education, Reading Education, Secondary and Middle School Education

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TeachingBooks
TeachingBooks includes thousands of resources about fiction and nonfiction books used in the K–12 environment, with every resource selected to encourage the integration of multimedia author and book materials into reading and library activities. To make a personal account for creating booklists and saving resources, click Educator Login and sign up with your student or faculty e-mail.

Full book and Poem readings via TeachingBooks database
Click on the book title then check under Book Readings
How-to Video: Children's and YA eBooks from public libraries
How to use a public library e-card to access children's e-books from Enoch Pratt Free Library and Baltimore County Public Library.
Enoch Pratt Free Library eCard
Access additional e-books via Libby, Scholastic BookFlix, Tumblebook Library with an eCard via Baltimore City's public library system. Search by age range to see available databases: https://www.prattlibrary.org/research/databases
More e-books and streaming content here: https://www.prattlibrary.org/books-and-more/downloads-streaming-media
Baltimore County Public Library e-Cards
An e-card allows you to use BCPL's online research databases and other selected resources such as e-books, e-audiobooks, magazines and streaming video via OverDrive/Libby, CloudLibrary and RBdigital. Open to Maryland residents and to students with a current Maryland school ID whose permanent residence is out-of-state (all out-of-state library cards expire one year from registration.)
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Once libraries have reopened and you feel safe doing so, visit the Service Desk at any branch and bring a current photo ID to get a permanent card with full library privileges.
Epic! for Educators
Thousands of popular, high-quality books for K - 5. Epic! is 100% Free For Elementary School Teachers and Librarians in the U.S. and Canada
Fable Cottage: Bilingual tales for language learners
Video and text stories in English, French, Italian, Spanish & German

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Teaching Books
Includes thousands of resources about fiction and nonfiction books used in the K–12 environment
Recommended Books for Children and Young Adults (Cooperative Children’s Book Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Overview of book recommendation resources from the Cooperative Children's Book Center at University of Wisconsin Madison

LISTA: Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Useful for finding book reviews. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
Gale in Context: Biography
A comprehensive database of biographical information on more that 150,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.
Professional Development Collection
High quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles
Teacher Reference Center
Popular teacher and administrator trade journals to assist professional educators.

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Children's and Young Adult Literature

Miriam DesHarnais

Notable streaming and e-Book content

Learn about Children's and YA Lit & Authors