Like reading-aloud, a library is ...
"not about teaching a child how to read;
it's about teaching a child to want to read."
- Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook.
Book Awards - Iowa
grades 3-6
grades 6-9
grades 9-12
Book Awards - National - Children's
best picture book
Newbery Medal
best children's book
African American author/illustrator
best Latino/Latina children's book
author/illus portraying adolescent disability
fiction, picture book, & non-fiction
best beginning reader book
Sibert Informational Book Medal
best children's informational book
best children's video
children's author/illus of lasting contribution
children's book translated to English
elem/middle school fiction & non-fiction
elem/middle school fiction & non-fiction
elem/middle school
Book Awards - National - Young Adult
adult books/appeal to ages 12-18
fiction/nonfiction for ages 12-18
Great Graphic Novels for Teens
debut in 2007
author's lifetime contribution to YA lit
best Young Adult book
Outstanding Books for the College Bound
covers history to science, revised every 5 yrs
Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults
by genres: religion, humorous, mystery...
great books for teens who don't like to read
author/illus portraying adolescent disability
Selected Audiobooks for Young Adults
cassette/CD books for ages 12-18
Fabulous Films for Young Adults
for technical merit, content & interest to Young Adults (YA)
William C. Morris Young Adult Debut Award
published by a first-time author writing for teens and celebrating impressive new voices in young adult literature