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Children & Young Adult Materials: Books & Reviews

A guide to finding books and media for children and young adults.

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Fever Year book cover

Fever Year

Author: Don Brown
Call Number: LS614.5 .B812f 2019

A First Time for Everything book cover

A First Time for Everything

Author: Dan Santat
Call Number: LS741.5 .Sa593f 2023

Awards:

  • National Book Award for Young People's Literature-2023
  • A Texas Lone Star Reading List Pick-2024
  • A Top Ten ALA Best Graphic Novel for Children-2023

Love and Gelato

Author: Jenna Evans Welch
Call Number: LS .W443L

Awards:

  • Teen’s Top 10 (Awards) nominee
  • New York Times bestseller

 

Huda F Are You book cover

Huda F Are You?

Author: Huda Fahmy
Call Number: LS741.5 .F142h 2021

The Day the Crayons Quit book cover

The Day the Crayons Quit

Author: Drew Daywalt
Illustrator: Oliver Jeffers
Call Number: LS .D3285d

Awards:

  • E. B. White Read-Aloud Award
  • Amazon's Best Picture Book of the Year-2013
  • Goodread's Best Picture Book of the Year-2013 

Welcome!

Welcome to the Children & Young Adult Materials Research Guide!  Use this guide to search for and locate library materials intended for children and young adult audiences.  It doesn't stop at books!  You will be able find audio/visual materials, award lists, articles, and teacher-created materials to name a few.

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Finding Books

Easily find Children & Young Adult Books, available at NGL, by searching the library's online catalog. You can use the search bar above or the Books & Ebooks tab on the NGL website.
Types of catalog searches & how to perform them.

Keyword

 Enter your Keyword(s) into the search bar and click Search.  All book records containing that keyword should appear in a results list. To narrow the list to print titles available @ NGL, click Limit Search and change the location to Children and Young Adult 3rd Floor.
Author Enter the Author's name (ex: Tamora Pierce or Pierce, Tamora) into the search bar, change the dropdown list to Author, and click Search.  Available books from that author should appear in the results list.
Title Enter the Book's title into the search bar, change the dropdown list to Title, and click Search. It should take you directly to the book's record, if the NGL has a copy.
Subject Enter 'juvenile literature' into the search bar, change the dropdown list to Subject, and click Search. All books with the subject of juvenile literature should appear in the results list. 
Location All children and young adult print materials should be located in the LS section. To narrow the list to print titles available @ NGL, click Limit Search and change the location to Children and Young Adult 3rd Floor.

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Misty Schattle
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