Looking for great books to add to your to-read list? Each year, librarians and booksellers come together to award the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction—and the newly-announced 2021 honorees are not to be missed. Deacon King Kong by James McBride has won the 2021 medal for fiction. Set in 1960s Brooklyn, the […]
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Great literature has been a bright spot in this challenging year, with an impressive slate of new releases offering thought-provoking perspectives, meticulously researched information, and much-needed entertainment. We asked I Love Libraries readers and the American Library Association’s social media followers to share their favorite books from 2020. Responses included fiction and non-fiction titles for kids, teens,
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Looking for some great young adult literature? Ask the experts: teenage readers. Each fall, the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) brings together adolescents from across the country to choose the Teens’ Top Ten, a list of the very best YA reads from the previous year. Their picks range across genres and come from diverse authors,
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Each year, library professionals and booksellers come together to select the winners of the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. This week, they announced the 46 books on their longlist for the 2021 award, which includes some of the most talked about books of the past year. “This was unquestionably a challenging year
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Amid ongoing national conversations about anti-Blackness and racial violence, librarians from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) and the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) have put together a social justice reading list for youth. The list, titled Community, Connecting, Cultivating & Constructing Conversations Through Literacy, highlights books for kids in
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Love reading young adult literature? Librarians from the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) have put together an extensive list of their favorite recent novels from the genre. Of the 71 titles they selected, they’ve also chosen their top ten must-reads, which are as follows: The Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben
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Each June, readers across the country observe Rainbow Book Month, an opportunity to celebrate the authors and writings that reflect the lives and experiences of the LGBTQIA+ community. It’s also a time to advocate for free and widespread access to queer literature, which is censored all too frequently in libraries and schools. An overwhelming proportion of
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Summer reading helps kids stay engaged when school isn’t in session, ensuring that students are prepared and ready to learn when they return to the classroom in the fall. Libraries have long played a key role in hosting summer reading programs that are free and accessible to everyone in their communities, but due to the
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Award-Winning Queer Literature to Read During Rainbow Book Month
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Many of the nation’s most prestigious honors for literature are administered by librarians—including the Newbery and Caldecott medals, the Coretta Scott King Book Awards, and the Stonewall youth and adult Book Awards. For the first time ever, readers everywhere can cheer on the winners of 12 librarian-selected awards by tuning into the American Library Association’s
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