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SHS LC Book Events 2023-2024

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Sora

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Access eBooks & audiobooks through Sora!

Click the Sora icon and choose Scarborough High School from the drop down menu and use your School Google email if asked to login

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Book Awards we Follow

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 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.

Announced in January

2023 National Book Award Winner for Fiction

The National Book Award 

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

 

 

2023 National Book Award Winner for Nonfiction

The National Book Award

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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With a Scarborough Public Library card, you can access Cloud Library eBooks and eAudiobooks

If you need a library card and are a student at a Scarborough school, please email askspl@scarboroughlibrary.org

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Portland Public Library

Free Portland Public Library cards are available to residents in any town in the Southern Maine Library District