The American Library Association has an excellent resource guide for researching banned or challenged books. It can be found here: Home - Researching Banned or Challenged Books - LibGuides at American Library Association (ala.org)
This resource guide mentions multiple tools for students to use to research titles. Those tools and websites will be linked below. General literature and art-related databases are listed in their respective tabs to the left of this box.
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