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Jason Reynolds / Simon & Schuster Travel Grant

The travel grants will be awarded annually to five black/African American youth/teen services public or school librarians for the purpose of attending the ALA Annual conference. The grants provide up to $3000 (and not less than $1500) to cover actual expenses

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Publications, Research & Travel

Choice Outstanding Academic Titles

This prestigious list reflects the best in scholarly titles reviewed by Choice and brings with it the extraordinary recognition of the academic library community. Learn more.

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Notable Children's Books

Each year the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) identifies the best of the best of children's books on the Notable Children's Books list.

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Children and Young Adults

Alex Awards

The Alex Awards are given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18. The winning titles are selected from the previous year's publishing.

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Youth Media Award
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Listen List

The Listen List: Outstanding Audiobook Narration seeks to highlight outstanding audiobook titles that merit special attention by general adult listeners and the librarians who work with them.

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The Reading List

The Reading List seeks to highlight outstanding genre fiction that merit special attention by general adult readers and the librarians who work with them.

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Reference, Technical & Adult Books

Notable Books for Adults

Since 1944, the goal of the Notable Books Council has been to make available to the nation’s readers a list of 25 very good, very readable, and at times very important fiction, nonfiction, and poetry books for the adult reader. Please visit https://www

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The Amelia Bloomer Book List

The Amelia Bloomer Project, a committee of the Feminist Task Force of the Social Responsibilities Round Table, compiles the Amelia Bloomer List, an annual annotated book list (or bibliography) of well-written and well-illustrated books with significant

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2019
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Best Fiction for Young Adults

The books, recommended for ages 12-18, meet the criteria of both good quality literature and appealing reading for teens. The list comprises a wide range of genres and styles, including contemporary realistic fiction, fantasy, horror, science fiction and

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Great Graphic Novels for Teens

The list presents graphic novels published in the past 16 months that are recommended reading for teens aged twelve to eighteen.

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Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults

To select, annotate, and present for publication an annual list of notable audio recordings significant to young adults from those released in the past two years.
 
 

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Over the Rainbow Project Book List

The Over the Rainbow Book List (OTR) is a committee of the Rainbow Round Table (RRT) of the American Library Association (ALA). OTR creates an annual, annotated bibliography of books for general adult readers aged 18 years or older that have commendable

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Rainbow Project Book List

The Rainbow Book List presents an annual bibliography of quality books with significant and authentic LGBQTIA+ content, which are recommended for people from birth through eighteen years of age.

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