Welcome to the Children's & Young Adult Literature research guide. This guide is intended to be a tool to assist you in your children's literature research endeavors and to help strengthen your analysis skills. It will introduce you to a variety of literature databases and resources, including ones specializing in young adult and children's literature.
While the resources in this guide are helpful, Start My Research is still sometimes the best place to search for sources.
Use the Start My Research link above to look for children's books.
To find children's fiction books, enter a keyword(s) and then add the phrase juvenile fiction to your search.
Example: horses AND "juvenile fiction"
To find children's non-fiction books, enter a keyword(s) and then add the phrase juvenile literature to your search.
Example: horses AND "juvenile literature"
To find a specific book, search for the book's title or author.
If you would like to browse for children's books in Auraria Library, children's literature is located on the 2nd floor in the LT call number section.
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