Literature Databases with Journal, Magazine & Newspaper Articles

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Literature Resource Center via Gale

Provides critical and biographical information about more than 120,000 authors from the Classical period to the present including several hundred thousand full text journal articles and other critical essays, thousands of plot summaries and links to authoritative Web sites, over 100,000 author biographies, several thousand author portraits, and the Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature.

Novelist Plus EBSCO

Online readers' advisory tool that helps readers find new fiction and non-fiction titles based on books they've already read or topics in which they are interested. Readers can look for books about particular subjects, relationships, geographic areas, or periods of time. Book reviews are also available.

Novelist Plus K-8 EBSCO

Novelist Plus K-8 EBSCO Identifies books appropriate for children's reading abilities and interests. Search by author, title, series, reading level, and plot to find descriptions, reviews, discussion guides, and related articles. Browse by genre and subgenre and by various awards given to children's literature