Research Guides: Secondary and Middle School Education: Locate Young Adult Literature

Miriam DesHarnais, Education Librarian

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mdesharnais@towson.edu

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

TeachingBooks This link opens in a new window
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.

YA Lit: Adolescent Development Themes
Books for middle schoolers and teens related to adolescent development / a range of contemporary issues that impact teens
Recent YA Award Winners (via Teaching Books)
7th-12th grade fiction and nonfiction, award winning within the last three years

Finding Children's Books in the Catalog at TU's Albert S Cook Library (video; 2:27)
Shows how to use Cook OneSearch and the library catalog to see if the library owns children's and young adult books. When you find a book that you want, make sure its status is listed as "Available" and screenshot or write down the book's location, call number, title and author. This will help you find the book on the shelf. The Children's Area is at the back right of the Library's 4th floor.

LISTA: Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Library, Information Science & Technology Abstract (LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.

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.
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

YA e-books via ProQuest e-Book Central
Very small collection (currently 7 titles) of YA full-text e-books
Audible Stories
Temporarily free collection of children's and young adult audiobooks from Audible.
Words Without Borders Campus
Words Without Borders Campus connects students and educators to eye-opening contemporary literature from across the globe.