Subject Librarian
Representation Matters
Why We Need Diverse Books
Browse the Children's and Young Adult Print Book Collection
The Children's/Young Adult Collection can be found on Level 2 of TCNJ Library (north side of the building, near the periodicals section).
Search for Book Titles in the Children's/Young Adult Collection
To search for children's/YA books using the Library's OneSearch box, search by keyword, title or author and limit to Books & Media.
On the left under Location there will be options for:
Children's Fiction
Young Adult Fiction
Children's/YA Collection (will retrieve fiction and non-fiction titles)
Children's/YA Collection - Caldecott Award
Children's/YA Collection - Newbery Award
Browsing & Locating Fiction Children's/YA Titles
Fiction is organized and shelved alphabetically by the Author's last name.
FICT will always appear on the book spine before the Author last name.
Examples:
FICT De La Pena
FICT Woodson
FICT Yep
Browsing & Locating Non-Fiction Titles: Dewey Decimal System (DDC)
The Dewey Decimal Classification System is a numeric system used to organize non-fiction books at most school and public libraries. Each book is assigned a unique number according to the subject area in which is falls. This number appears on the spine label or the front left of the book cover, and serves as the "address" of the book on the shelf.
00 Computer science, information & general works
100 Philosophy & Psychology
200 Religion
300 Social Sciences
400 Language
500 Science & Math
600 Technology
700 Arts & Recreation
800 Literature
900 History & Geography
Most of the books classified using Dewey are non-fiction, but here are specific genres which are primarily fiction:
Fairy Tales, Folk Literature 398
Graphic Novels 741
Poetry 800
Diverse Book Finder
Diverse BookFinder is a website and search engine for locating children's books reflecting diversity and multicultural themes or topics. Please note that not all of these titles are available at TCNJ. Search to see if we own it.