Children's and Young Adult Literature

CECH Library holds more than 20,000 books for children and young adults, including the following categories:

• Picture books (E)
• Beginning readers (BR)
• Juvenile fiction (J)
• Graphic novels (GN)
• Young adult fiction (F)
• Information or non-fiction (Dewey Decimal call number)

There are many ways to search our children's and young adult collections using OneSearch, the red search box on the UC Libraries website.

• Strategy 1: Search by title
  • Example search: Hello Lighthouse
• Strategy 2: Search by author/illustrator
  • Example search: Virginia Lee Burton
• Strategy 3: Search by topic or keyword
  • Using limiter on left to select CECH (under Library facet heading)
  • Using limited on left to select CECH - Children's & YA Books (under Location facet heading)
    • Example search: wordless picture book
    • Example search: bilingual 
    • Example search: dinosaurs