Juvenile fiction falls under the Library of Congress subject heading P, language and literature; specifically PZ for general juvenile fiction. To help browse the collection, signs are posted in the stacks. The table below is a similar to available signs, featuring frequently used subject headings for juvenile books.
Be sure to ask in the IRC if you need help locating children's books in the library catalog or in the stacks.
| Class P | Language & Literature | ||
| Subclass | Description | ||
| PE | English Language | ||
| 1155 | Alphabet Books | ||
| 1591 | Juvenile Thesaurus | ||
| 1628 | Juvenile Dictionaries | ||
| PN | Literature (General) | ||
| 6110 | Poetry Anthology | ||
| 6371 | Riddles | ||
| 6727 | Graphic Novels Categorized for YA Readers | ||
| PR | English Literature | ||
| Individual Authors: Poetry, Prose, Drama | |||
| PS | American Literature | ||
| Individual Authors: Poetry, Prose, Drama | |||
| PZ | Fiction & Juvenile | ||
| PZ 5 | Collections | ||
| PZ 6 | Early to 1860 / 1870 | ||
| PZ 7 | Juvenile Fiction | ||
| PZ 7.1 | Juvenile Fiction * | ||
| PZ 7.5 | Novels in verse | ||
| PZ 7.7 | Graphic Novels Categorized for Young Readers | ||
| PZ 8 | Fairy Tales | ||
| PZ 8.1 | Folklore, Legends, Romance | ||
| PZ 8.2 | Fables | ||
| PZ 8.3 | Stories in Rhyme, Nursery Rhymes | ||
| PZ 10.3 | Animal Stories | ||
| PZ 23 | Languages, French | ||
| PZ 73 | Languages, Spanish | ||
* Authors who began to publish from 1870 through 2014 are classed in PZ7. Authors who began to publish in 2015 and later are classified in PZ7.1. (LOC Classification, 2014).
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