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I first did a search for young adult and literature and came up with 43 results.  I found several eBooks of interest.

100 More Popular Young Adult Authors : Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies

Coretta Scott King Award Books : Using Great Literature with Children and Young Adults

Center Stage : Library Programs That Inspire Middle School Patrons

On Reading Books to Children : Parents and Teacher

As I looked closer at the results their publication dates seemed to range from 1999 to 2004.  So I decided to narrow the search to more recent publication dates as young adult literature has evolved a lot in the last ten years.  I could only narrow the range from 2002 to 2005 and had 14 results after.  The above books remained in the results.  I had hoped for more recent publications.   I returned to the advanced search and tried different search terms.  As I typed in young adult, many options to choose from popped up for selection.  Starting another search I selected the range 2005 to 2014, English and download available with no search term and had 631 results.  When I added fiction as a search term with the previous limiter, I had only 6 results.  None which would interest my middle school students. 

I did search South Dakota and got 123 results.  There were some very interesting titles, a couple of which I already own.  There were several books I think teachers could use as supplement resources but may not be of interest to students.

Tyrannosaurus Sue : The Extraordinary Saga of the Largest, Most Fought Over T. Rex Ever Found

The Rapid City Indian School, 1898-1933

America's National Historic Trails

Bachelor Bess : The Homesteading Letters of Elizabeth Corey, 1909-1919

When looking at any of the results I had the ability to search similar sources through the subjects category.  Farther down the page for each book was a section that highlighted most relevant pages from the book in connection with my search term(s).  I think this database might be a bit much for my students to use.  It takes quite a bit of searching to locate exactly what you are looking for and students do not usually have the patience for this level of researching.

 

For the second question, I typed in fairy tales and had 66 results.  I found some titles with a color listed in each title.  Looking closer I realized that the books were by the same author, Andrew Lang.  The covers of these eBooks did not always show the color that was in the title but described the fairy.    To sort quicker, I used the advanced search for fairy tales and Andrew Lang which netted me 6 results.  Looking at the results, the last book listed was by Andrew Lang but not a fairy tale but a book of poems.  The Blue Fairy book was listed twice.  These two books are the same as I looked at the most relevant pages section, they are just listed with different publication information.

The Violet Fairy Book

The Blue Fairy Book       In public domain. Champaign, Ill. [P.O. Box 2782, Champaign 61825] : Project Gutenberg.

Blue Fairy Book              In public domain. Charlottesville, Va : University of Virginia Library. 1996

The Yellow Fairy Book

The Red Fairy Book

I went back to the original fairy tale search to explore more of the other titles.  I have an 8^th grade teacher who teaches a mythology class that includes fairy tales and thought she might find some the titles helpful.  One item I noticed is that most of the ebooks are at least 10 years old, though because of the topic may not be of great importance.  Many of the 66 results did not focus on what I wanted so I went back to advanced search and searched fairy tales as a subject which yielded 19 results.  This was a cleaner search and I will pass on these results to that teacher.