What's in this guide?

Here you will find resources and instructions to assist you with finding books, book reviews, book award information and electronic resources for children's and young adult books. You will also find links to multicultural literature, books in digital formats and information about children's literature.

Books
Learn how to locate and request children's and young adult literature.
Book Reviews
Outlines several different ways to locate professional reviews of literature.
Subject Lists
Click here for children's book recommendations in often requested areas, such as multicultural books, graphic novels, special needs books and children's choice book award titles. All titles listed here are available through NLU libraries.
Children's Literature Links
Resources to assist you with finding books and other resources for use in the classroom.
Young Adult Literature Links
Resources to assist you with finding books and other resources for use in the classroom.
Free Stuff
Click here for links to programs that give free books to children as well as authors who visit schools via Skype.
Articles
Find scholarly research journal articles that have been peer reviewed by experts in the field.
Requesting Articles
Instructions on how to set up an account in Illiad, the article request service, and request articles that are not full text or complete in the databases.
Bookworms and Booklists
Click here for recommended reading lists, including a plant science bibliography created for the Chicago Botanic Garden's Bringing Up Bookworms.

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Related Information

Book Awards - Children's and Youth Literature
Links to the websites for awards given to children and young adult books in a variety of categories.
Goodread Bookshelf
Click here for children's book recommendations by the University's Children's & Youth Literature librarian. Titles are tagged on the left menu where you can select bibliographies for such topics as Picture Books for Older Readers or by genres such as Historical Fiction.
Latino Literature and Americas Collection

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