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.
Announced in January
2023 Alex Award Winner
Alex Award
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.
Announced in January
2023 Alex Award Winner
Alex Award
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.
Announced in January
2023 Alex Award Winner
Alex Awards
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 mission of the National Book Foundation is to celebrate the best literature in America, expand its audience, and ensure that books have a prominent place in American culture.
The mission of the National Book Foundation is to celebrate the best literature in America, expand its audience, and ensure that books have a prominent place in American culture.
Announced during the month of November
ON ORDER
2023 Booker Prize Winner
The Booker Prize
The Man Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for five decades. The prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK.
Announced during the month of November
ON ORDER
2024 Michael L. Printz Winner
The Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature
The Michael L. Printz Award annually honors the best book written for teens, based entirely on its literary merit, each year. In addition, the Printz Committee names up to four honor books, which also represent the best writing in young adult literature.
ANNOUNCED during the month of January
ON ORDER
2024 Michael L. Printz Honor Book
The Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature
The Michael L. Printz Award annually honors the best book written for teens, based entirely on its literary merit, each year. In addition, the Printz Committee names up to four honor books, which also represent the best writing in young adult literature.
ANNOUNCED during the month of January
ON ORDER
2024 Michael L. Printz Honor Book
The Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature
The Michael L. Printz Award annually honors the best book written for teens, based entirely on its literary merit, each year. In addition, the Printz Committee names up to four honor books, which also represent the best writing in young adult literature.
ANNOUNCED during the month of January
ON ORDER
2024 Michael L. Printz Honor Book
The Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature
The Michael L. Printz Award annually honors the best book written for teens, based entirely on its literary merit, each year. In addition, the Printz Committee names up to four honor books, which also represent the best writing in young adult literature.
ANNOUNCED during the month of January
ON ORDER
2024 Michael L. Printz Honor Book
The Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature
The Michael L. Printz Award annually honors the best book written for teens, based entirely on its literary merit, each year. In addition, the Printz Committee names up to four honor books, which also represent the best writing in young adult literature.
ANNOUNCED during the month of January
ON ORDER
2023 Pulitzer Prize : Fiction
The Pulitzer Prize in Fiction
One of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that is awarded annually for letters, drama, and music. The award recognizes distinguished fiction by an American author.
ANNOUNCED during the month of April
Shared this year with Hernan Diaz's Trust
2023 Pulitzer Prize
One of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that is awarded annually for letters, drama, and music. The award recognizes distinguished fiction by an American author.
ANNOUNCED during the month of April
Shared this year with Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead
2023 Pulitzer Prize : General Nonfiction
The Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction
One of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that is awarded annually for letters, drama, and music. The award recognizes distinguished fiction by an American author.
ANNOUNCED during the month of April
2023 Women's Prize for Fiction
The Women's Prize for Fiction is the UK's most prestigious annual book award celebrating & honoring fiction written by women. We honour outstanding, ambitious, original fiction written in English by women.
Announced in June
Scarborough Public Library
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Portland Public Library
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