After almost a decade of the Young Adult Library Services Association in the red, the ALA’s teen services division will be ...

What is Happening with YALSA After many years of effort by ALA and YALSA members, YALSA remains financially unsustainable, with 8 of the last 10 years running in an operational deficit. Consequently, ...

ALA returns to Philadelphia for its 2025 Annual Conference (June 26–30), featuring authors, education programs, and ...

A number of LGBTQ-inclusive books also gained awards or honors in non-LGBTQ-specific categories ... Latino cultural experience”; “Homebody,” by Theo Parish, earned a YALSA Award for Excellence in ...

PHOENIX — The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), has selected 10 adult books with special appeal to teen readers to receive the ...

The 2024 ACM Awards started with a performance from a woman in red and ended with a woman with red hair. Country icons and newcomers teamed with newcomers and out-of-genre superstars for two hours ...

Speaking of our 2024 awards, thank you everyone for your patience as staff work to post the current winners, nominees, and our YALSA Selected Lists on our website. Some of you may or may not know that ...

including on the YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults list, as a Gotham Book Prize finalist and a 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards nominee. The New York Times named it a young adult book to watch for.

Odyssey Awards for the best audiobooks produced for children and ... Four other books were finalists for the award: YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults honors the best nonfiction ...

Along with the awards, several performances were given in ... (2014), won the Washington State Book Award, as well as an ALA/YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults pick, according to Spokesman ...

Traditionally we have appointed one oversight committee for all of our book awards and selected lists, but in 2020 the YALSA Board approved the creation of a Selected List Oversight committees. We ...

She chaired the ALA/YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens Committee, was a judge for the 2007 Eisner Awards, and blogs at SLJ's Good Comics for Kids and Early Word. Her guide Understanding Manga and ...