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The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), has selected 10 adult books with special appeal to teen readers to receive the 2026 Alex Awards. The awards, sponsored by the Margaret A. Edwards Trust, were announced today during the ALA’s Youth Media Awards Announcements in Chicago.

Dr. Jewell Parker Rhodes, author of “Will’s Race for Home,” and R. Gregory Christie, illustrator of “The Library in the Woods,” are the winners of the 2026 Coretta Scott King Book Awards honoring African American authors and illustrators of outstanding books for children and young adults. Arriel Vinson, author of “Under the Neon Lights,” is the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award winner.

Kadir Nelson is the recipient of the 2026 Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement. The award was announced today during the American Library Association’s Youth Media Awards Announcements in Chicago.

“Halfway to Somewhere,” written and illustrated by Jose Pimienta, and published by RH Graphic, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House, and “One of the Boys,” by Victoria Zeller, published by Arthur A. Levine, an imprint of Levine Querido, are the 2026 recipients of the Stonewall Book Awards – Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children’s and Young Adult Literature Award.

The American Library Association (ALA) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2026 Schneider Family Book Awards, which honor an author or illustrator for the artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences. The award winners were announced today during the ALA’s Youth Media Awards Announcements in Chicago.

The 2026 winners of the Sydney Taylor Book Award, administered by the Association of Jewish Libraries, an affiliate of the American Library Association (ALA), were announced today during the ALA’s Youth Media Awards Announcements in Chicago.

The Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA), an affiliate of the American Library Association (ALA), announced the 2026 winners of its Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature youth categories today during the ALA’s Youth Media Awards Announcements in Chicago.

The American Indian Youth Literature Award-winning titles were announced today during the American Library Association’s Youth Media Awards Announcements in Chicago.

CHICAGO — The American Library Association (ALA) announces twenty-nine advisors for Aging Together: An Evaluation of Library Programming for Older Adults, a national evaluation initiative to better understand and disseminate information about the current...

Rise: A Feminist Book Project for Ages 0-18, a subgroup of the ALA Social Responsibilities Round Table’s Feminist Task Force, announced its Top Ten feminist books for young readers.

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