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Rainbow Book List Rainbow Book Lists The Rainbow Book List is released every January. Books on the list are published within the assigned calendar year or between July 1 and December 31 of the previous calendar year.
Booklist's Top of the List
About the Booklist's Top of the List Every January, Booklist publishes Editors’ Choice: lists of the best books, databases, video/DVDs, and audiobooks of the past year. From these lists, we further select what we call the Top of the List: the single best title in eight categories—adult fiction, adult nonfiction, youth fiction, youth nonfiction, youth picture book, reference source, video/DVD, and audiobook. Administered by: 2011 Winner(s)
Association of Jewish Libraries - Sydney Taylor Book Award
The Sydney Taylor Book Award is presented annually to outstanding books for children and teens that authentically portray the Jewish experience. Presented by the Association of Jewish Libraries since 1968, the award encourages the publication and widespread use of quality Judaic literature. Gold medals are presented in three categories: Picture Books, Middle Grade, and Young Adult. Honor Books are awarded silver medals, and Notable Books are named in each category. To order gold or silver seals to place on your own copies of winning titles, click here.
Booklist Editors' Choice: Reference Sources
African American Almanac: 400 Years of Triumph, Courage, and Excellence By Lean’tin Bracks. 2012. 560p. illus. Visible Ink, $22.95 (9781578593231). This affordable, concise, and overall first-rate resource chronicles the African American experience from the arrival of the first Africans to North America in the early 1600s to the present day. Atlas of Yellowstone
Regina Medal
Past Regina Medal Recipients 2019 Kate DiCamillo 2018 Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney 2017 David A. Adler
Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)
*YALSA has launched the new Teen Book Finder Database, which is a one-stop shop for finding selected lists and award winners. Users can search this free resource by award, list name, year, author, genre and more, as well as print customizable lists. This new resource will replace the individual award and list web pages currently on YALSA’s site that are not searchable and that are organized only by year. Each year, the Popular Paperbacks committee creates lists of books to encourage young adults to read for pleasure.
The Scott O'Dell Award
Worth (Simon & Schuster), A LaFaye, 2005. The River Between Us (Dial Press), Richard Peck, 2004. Trouble Don't Last (Alfred A. Knopf), Shelley Pearsall, 2003. The Land (Phyllis Fogelman Books), Mildred D. Taylor, 2002.
Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)
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Best Fiction for Young Adults
About the Best Fiction List YALSA’s Best Fiction for Young Adults Blogging Team presents fiction titles published for young adults in the past 14 months that are recommended reading for ages 12 to 18. The purpose of the annual list it to provide librarians and library workers with a resource to use for collection development and reader’s advisory purposes. Although now a blogging team, the group was originally a committee.
Booklist Editors' Choice: Books for Youth
About the Booklist Editors' Choice: Books for Youth Committed to providing a broad selection of outstanding books that mixes popular appeal with literary excellence, the Books for Youth editorial staff has chosen the titles below as best-of-the-year fiction, nonfiction, and picture books. Administered by:
Notables - CHILDREN'S LITERATURE ASSEMBLY
A Plan for Pops. Written by Heather Smith and illustrated by Brooke Kerrigan. Published by Orca Book Publishers.Beverly, Right Here. Written by Kate DiCamillo. Published by Candlewick Press.Book Rescuer: How a Mensch from Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come.
Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)
YALSA’s Readers’ Choice list seeks to engage a wide audience of librarians, educators, teens and young adult literature enthusiasts in choosing the most popular teen titles in a given year, as organized by broad genres. The list will also provide librarians with a timely means of identifying popular teen titles on an ongoing basis. Nominations will be posted monthly, with a final vote taking place each November. Any individual, provided he/she is not the author or an employee of the publisher, or a current member of the Readers’ Choice List Committee may nominate a title via an online form, while only YALSA members are eligible to vote for the final ballot, which is sent in the November issue of YALSA E-News. Policies and Procedures
Outstanding International Books List - USBBY
Beginning in 2006, USBBY has selected an honor list of international books for young people. The USBBY Outstanding International Books List is published each year in the February issue of School Library Journal and as a bookmark.The Outstanding International Books (OIB) committee is charged with selecting international books that are deemed most outstanding of those published during the calendar year. For the purposes of this honor list, the term "international book" is used to describe a book published or distributed in the United States that originated or was first published in a country other than the U.S. 2021 Outstanding international books list
Booklist Editors' Choice: Adult Books for Young Adults
About the Booklist Editors' Choice: Adult Books for Young Adults Selected by the Books for Youth editors, the following titles comprise the year’s best personal reading for teenagers among adult books published in 2006. More on each book’s content and suggested audience can be found in the full-length Booklist review. Administered by:
