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Search by title for journals in electronic format. - ILLiad
Request journal articles not available in any format at Lovejoy Library. Request books not available in Lovejoy Library or via I-Share. - RefWorks
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Web Sites
Recommended reading lists from:
- YALSA
Award winning books for young adults - ALAN Online Official site of the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents- Includes Book Reviews and ALAN Review archives
Special Aids
- KnowledgeNotes

Guides to literary texts, offering in-depth analysis of 230 titles including classic works from William Shakespeare and modern works from Maya Angelou
Topical articles
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Search by SUBJECT:
Teenagers -- Books and Reading
Young Adult Literature -- Study and Teaching (Secondary
Young Adults - Books and reading
with the subheading- Juvenile Fiction
For example:
Death - Juvenile Fiction; Illinois - Juvenile Fiction; Dogs - Juvenile Fiction
- SIUE Catalog
Lovejoy Library Catalog - I-Share Shared catalog for 76 Illinois academic libraries, including Lovejoy Library
- WorldCat
Books and materials in libraries worldwide
Examples from the Circulating Collection
- Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the Classics
Call Number: PS 59 .A34 1993 - From Hinton to Hamlet: Building Bridges between Young Adult Literature and the Classics
Call Number: PN 1009 .A1 H47 2005 - Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: A Casebook
Call Number: PS3551.N464 Z794 1999 - Multicultural Voices in Contemporary Literature: A Resource for Teachers. 2nd ed.
Call Number: PS 153 .M56 D38 1999 - Radical Children's Literature: Future Visions and Aesthetic Transformations in Juvenile Fiction
Call Number: PN 1009.5 .P64 R49 2007
Selected Reference Resources in Lovejoy Library
- Best Books for Young Adults. Third Ed.
Call Number: REF Z 1037 .C34 2007 - The Continuum Encyclopedia of Young Adult Literature
Call Number: REF PN 1008.5 .C67 2005 - Dictionary of American Young Adult Fiction, 1997 - 2001: Books of Recognized Merit
Call Number: REF PS 374 .H45 2004 - The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature
ebook format - The Readers' Advisory Guide to Genre Fiction
Call Number: REF Z711.5 .S27 2001 - Senior High Core Collection
Call Number: REF Z 1039 .H54 S46 - Thematic Guide to Young Adult Literature
Call Number: REF PS 374 .Y57 T78 2006 - The Young Adult Reader's Advisor
Call Number: REF PN 1009 .A1 Y674 1992 - The Young Reader's Companion
Call Number: REF PN 1008.5 .C373 1993
Author Biographies
- Contemporary Authors
Call Number: REF Z1224 .C6 - Something About the Author
Call Number: REF PN 451.36 .S6
"Facts and Pictures about Authors and Illustrators of Books for Young People" - St. James Guide to Young Adult Writers
Call Number: REF Z 1232 .T9 1994 - Writers for Young Adults
Call Number: REf PS 490.W75 1997 - Writers of Multicultural Fiction for Young Adults: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook
Call Number: REF PS 374 .Y57 W75 1996
Electronic Reference Sources
- CREDO Reference
Electronic reference books in all subjects - Gale Virtual Reference Collection Electronic reference resources in
Business, education, literature, medicine, religion, science, social sciences, and technology - Literature Criticism Online
Centuries of scholarly and popular commentary on authors and their works from books, journals, magazines, broadsheets, pamphlets, diaries, and newspapers - Literature Online Fully-searchable library of 350,000+ works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 208 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.
- Naxos Spoken Word Library Classic novels, plays and poetry in the literary arts, humanities and education
More than 350 works by 100 authors, playwrights and poets read by professional actors - Poets On Screen 840 filmed readings by poets of classic and contemporary poems
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