Banned Books

WWW

• • FreedomtoRead.ca

  • Toronto Star article: From driver’s handbook to Dora the Explorer, Toronto library’s 2016 book removal requests

Databases

• • Gale Literature Resource Center Database 

    • Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. 

    • Search on your author and or title.

    • Search on banned books.

  • Literary Reference Center 

Provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and time frames. Includes: Merriam Webster’s Encyclopedia of Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Beacham’s Research Guide to Biography and Criticism (six volumes), The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature, The Columbia Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story, all of MagillOnLiterature Plus™, and much more.

• • Novelist (EBSCO)

Looking for something new to read? Novelist is a database that allows users to search for novels based on level, subject, title. Novelist provides access to reviews for 120,000 works of fiction and in addition. NoveList recommends books based on titles the user has already enjoyed.

Encyclopedia

• • Encyclopedia Britannica High