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Take-a-Look Books | Award Winners | Booklists | Author Websites | All About Reading

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Click here for information about the Library's new Just for Kids Book Club!

NoveList Search for books by your favorite author, read reviews, find read-alikes, and build your own lists of books you want to read.

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Take-a-Look Books
See what the Youth Services Staff and the Just for Kids Book Club members recommend!

For little Kids	For BIG Kids
Cozy Up With Board Books Falling for Board Books The Family Collection	Get Real! Just for Kids (#3) Just for Kids (#2) Just for Kids (#1) Mystery & Suspense Beginning Readers Series Books

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Award Winners

Texas Bluebonnet Award For kids grades 3-6. BookTalk A student website made possible by leading authors, publishers, and Tandem Library Books.  Contains great discussions of the Bluebonnet and 2x2 reading lists. Caldecott Medal Awarded to the best American picture books. Coretta Scott King Book Award Awarded to outstanding African American authors and illustrators.

Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature
A comprehensive and searchable database of award winning and honored books for kids and teens.

NCTE Award for Poetry for Children
Honors a living American poet for his or her aggregate work for children ages 3–13.

NCTE Orbis Picture Nonfiction Award
Promotes and recognizes excellence in the writing of nonfiction for children.

Newbery Medal
For the best American literature for children.

Pura Belpré Award
For exceptional Latino/Latina writers and illustrators.

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Booklists

2x2 Reading List
Selected by the Texas Library Association for children age 2 to grade 2.

100 Books Everyone Should Know
Compiled by the New York Public Library.

CBC Reading Lists
Multiple reading lists for young people produced by the Children’s Book Council.

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Author Websites

Authors & Illustrators
Links to author & illustrator sites brought to you by the New York Public Library.

CBC Author & Illustrator Sites
The Children’s Book Council’s alphabetical directory of author & illustrator web pages.

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All About Reading

Education Place: Reading For grades 1-6. Funbrain.com: Reading Web books & mad libs. Giggle Poetry Hundreds of funny poems to read and rate. Guys Read Created by author Jon Scieszka to help connect boys with books they’d like to read.  Includes links to author websites. International Children’s Digital Library Free online access to children’s books from around the world. Kidsreads.com Info about favorite books, series, & authors for kids.

PBS Kids: Reading Rainbow

PBS Kids: Stories

Reading is Fundamental: Reading Planet

Scholastic.com: Book Central

Starfall.com
Have fun learning to read!

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