LibGuides: ENG 330: Young Adult Literature: Find Sources

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Use this guide to find articles for your Final Project. Let us know if you have any questions and we will be happy to help!

Each database contains different articles. Try searching more than one to find what you need.

Bloom's Literature This link opens in a new window
Literature database that includes short author biographies, overviews of literary movements and works, and peer-reviewed journal articles. Also includes the Shakespeare Center, a reference resource consisting of summaries and analysis of Shakespeare's major works.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
General purpose archive of peer-reviewed journal articles from a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines.
CREDO Reference This link opens in a new window
General Reference database that includes general and subject-specific encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, atlases and many other reference materials in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
ProQuest Education Journals This link opens in a new window
Education database offering full-text access to hundreds of scholarly and trade journals.

Search in these specific magazines, journals, and newspapers to find articles on your author.

Something About the Author This link opens in a new window
Literature resource providing biographical profiles of children's authors and illustrators.
Children's Literature Review This link opens in a new window
Children's Literature collection including overviews, illustrations, commentary, and criticism of major children's authors, illustrators, and works. Available within Gale's Literature Online Database.
New York Times: 1980 - Current This link opens in a new window
Newspaper collection offering full-text access to the "paper of record," from 1980-present.
New York Times: Historical, 1851 - 2019 This link opens in a new window
Historical news collection of full page and article images.

Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature
Published by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY).
Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
The Bulletin, founded in 1945, is devoted entirely to the review of current books for children. One of the nation’s leading children’s book review journals for school and public librarians.
Additional Information Children's Literature Association Quarterly
Children's Literature Association Quarterly publishes first-rate scholarship in children's literature studies. Each issue features an editorial introduction, juried articles about research and scholarship in children's literature, and book reviews.
Children's Literature in Education
Covers classic and contemporary material, the highbrow and the popular, and ranges across works for infants through to material for young adults.
Horn Book Magazine
Provides reviews of children's and young-adult literature, articles, editorials, and interviews of authors and illustrators. Designed for professionals and academics in the field of children's books.
The lion and the unicorn.
An international theme- and genre-centered journal, committed to a serious, ongoing discussion of literature for children.