About the Alex Award 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. The Alex Awards were first given annually beginning in 1998 and became an official ALA award in 2002. The award is sponsored by the Margaret A. Edwards …

Join YALSA on Thursday, January 12th at 1 pm Central for the Member Exclusive Webinar Information Safety, Identity Protection and Anti-Doxxing Measures for Librarians. This webinar will cover digital personal safety in the face of book challenge related threats. It will go over the basics of doxxing,proactive steps one can to secure their information online, what to do in case of a …

2022 Best Fiction for Young Adults The members of the Best Fiction for Young Adults Blogging Team are: Coordinator, Allie Stevens, Calhoun County Library, Hampton, AR; Lindsay Bailey, Belfast Area High School Library, Belfast, ME; Heather Christensen, Portales Municipal Schools, Portales, NM; Matthew Clark, Bayview Glen Upper School, Toronto, Ontario; Megan Jackson, …

The Michael L. Printz Award is an American Library Association literary award that annually recognizes the "best book written for teens, based entirely on its literary merit".It is sponsored by Booklist magazine; administered by the ALA's young-adult division, the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA); and named for the Topeka, Kansas, school librarian Mike …

Thirteen Reasons Why (stylized as TH1RTEEN R3ASONS WHY) is a young adult novel written by Jay Asher in 2007, that follows the story of Hannah Baker, a high school freshman, and the thirteen reasons why she dies by suicide. Following her death, Hannah leaves behind a series of 7 double-sided cassette tapes detailing the 13 specific people and events that she blames for …

Apr 9, 2019 · read YALSA's Teen Programming Guidelines(.pdf) to learn about best practices in programming for and with teens; Book & Media Lists. YALSA Book Awards & Lists. Find great lists of recommended reading for your teen from our book awards and book lists. Some examples of the book awards and lists are: Alex Award; Margaret A. Edwards Award; Morris Award

Raina Diane Telgemeier (/'ɹeɪna 'tɛlgə'maɪəɹ/, born May 26, 1977) is an American cartoonist.Her works include the autobiographical webcomic Smile, which was published as a full-color graphic novel in February 2010, and the follow-up Sisters and the fiction graphic novel Drama, all of which have been on The New York Times Best Seller lists. She has also written and illustrated the ...

The list contains a sampling of book awards and recommended reading lists that highlight high-quality literature for young people about diverse peoples and triumphs of the human spirit. American Library Association (ALA) Alex Award ALA, YALSA Focus: ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults (ages 12 through 18).

Elizabeth "Liz" Murray (born () September 23, 1980) is an American memoirist and inspirational speaker who is notable for having been accepted by Harvard University despite being homeless in her high school years. Her life story was chronicled in Lifetime's television film Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story (2003). Murray's memoir Breaking Night: A Memoir of …

Erin Morgenstern (born July 8, 1978) is an American multimedia artist and the author of two fantasy novels.The Night Circus (2011) was published in more than a dozen languages by 2013 and won the annual Locus Award for Best First Novel.She is a 2012 recipient of an Alex Award.Her second book, The Starless Sea, was published in 2019.