Homework Help - Literature

Full-text database covering literary, scholarly and creative thought with indexing and abstracts for scholarly sources in the humanities.

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A full-text literary database covering all genres and timeframes. It includes thousands of synopses, critical essays, book reviews, literary journals and author biographies, plus full-text classic novels, short stories and poems. Additional curricular resources for educators.

Michigan eLibrary Resource

The largest curated online collection of literary criticism in the world offers centuries of literary analysis, including scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals, delivered in an easy-to-use format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals. Tens of thousands of hard-to-find essays represent a range of authors and works.

Find out more about Michigan authors and illustrators of non-fiction, poetry, mysteries, romance, children’s books, and more. Find authors for presentations and visits. This is a great source for students, teachers, and librarians looking for Michigan authors with a searchable database providing biographical and contact information.

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Get hand-crafted recommendations, articles, and lists for fiction, series, and nonfiction titles, created by librarians including book discussion guides, a reader's advisory toolbox, and audiobooks. Includes professional books reviews.

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A rich full-text database of hundreds of thousands of classic and contemporary poems, plus thousands of short stories, biographies, essays, lesson plans and learning guides. It also includes high-quality videos and audio recordings from the Academy of American Poets and other sources.

• Infographics depicting short story plot points and poetry word clouds 
• Text-to-Speech for HTML articles to assist struggling readers, auditory learners or those developing English-language proficiency 
• Citation tool to help students format references 
• Advanced search with Lexile Reading Level and page length limiters to help address text complexity requirements 
• 180 lesson plans/labs from the Poetry Foundation Literary 
• glossary

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Adapted reading material for middle and high school students with a foundation in grammar.

Michigan eLibrary Resource

Twain & Poe offers critical essays and interpretations about the works of author Mark Twain and on the poetry works of Edgar Allen Poe. The complete content of these two printed resources are available online, along with overviews on genres, subgenres, literary history, literary theory and schools of thought. Includes chronologies, biography, plot summaries.

Find engaging biographies of classic, contemporary, and emerging authors and illustrators of children’s and young adult works. Something About the Author Online examines the lives and works of authors and illustrators including spotlights on more than 12,000 individuals. Career interests and motivation, awards, sidelights and biographical information, hundreds of personal essays and illustrations.