Research Databases: Children & Young Adult

Most Useful:

• InfoTrac Newspapers
  (Thomson Gale) Includes 140 cover-to-cover newspapers from around the world plus an additional 300 sources of selected news, 1996 - present.
• Kids Search
  (EBSCO) Provides the ability to simultaneously search Middle Search Plus, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia of Animals, Newspaper Source, Primary Search, and TOPICsearch "with a child-friendly, graphically-rich design" suitable for elementary and middle school students.
• Student Research Center
  (EBSCO) Middle and high school student search page that finds and displays results from magazines, newspapers, biographies, country reports, plus film & video available in several databases (e.g., MAS Ultra - School Edition, Newspaper Source, Middle Search Plus, Vocational and Career Collection, and TOPICsearch).
• World Book Online (LSC-CyFair, LSC-Tomball, & HCPL)
  (NOTE: This link refers you to the HCPL page where you will see the World Book link and select it.)
  (World Book, Inc.) Searchable full-text encyclopedia entries enhanced with audio and video.

Also Try:

• Gale Virtual Reference Library (LSC-CyFair, LSC-Tomball, & HCPL)
  (Gale) Includes Grzimek's Animal Encyclopedia, Grzimek's Student Animal Life Resource, and Endangered Species reference books online.
• Handbook of Texas - free web
  (Texas State Historical Association) Encyclopedia entries on Texas history, culture, and geography.
• Middle Search Plus
  (EBSCO) Full text for "nearly 140 middle school magazines plus biographies, historical essays and student pamphlets. Find primary source documents, books, photos, maps, and flags."
• Novelist K-8 Plus (LSC-CyFair, LSC-Tomball, & HCPL)
  (EBSCO) Electronic readers advisory service for children's fiction and nonfiction literature, find by author, genre, or even tell the computer a novel you liked and it can recommend similar books.
• Primary Search
  (EBSCO) "Full text for nearly 70 popular, elementary school magazines plus a dictionary, photos, maps, and flags. Full text backfiles extend to 1989."
• TumbleBooks (LSC-CyFair, LSC-Tomball, & HCPL)
  (TumbleBooks Inc.) Interactive children's books using Flash animation.
• Texas Reference Center
  (EBSCO) Features Texas-related full-text articles, biographies, primary source documents, photos, maps, and flags with backfiles dating from 1975.