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=GREAT READS - BOOK LISTS AND AWARDS=

**AWARD WINNING BOOKS**
Alex Award 10 books written for adults with special appeal to young adults ages 12-18. || Beehive Book Awards 5 categories of books chosen from the by the children of Utah, who vote for their favorite. || Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction Award for historical fiction authors published in the previous year. || Coretta Scott King AwardAfrican American authors and illustrator for outstanding inspirational/educational contributions. || Margaret A. Edwards Award Honors an author for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature. || Michael L. Printz Award A book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature. || [|The William C. Morris DebutYA Award] Honors a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens and celebrating impressive new voices in young adult literature. || [|Pura Belpré Award] The Pura Belpré Award is presented to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth. || Sid Fleischman Humor Award The Sid Fleischman Humor Award is an award for authors whose work exemplifies the excellence of writing in the genre of humor. || [|Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards] Horn Book Awards are among the most prestigious honors in the field of children’s and young adult literature. Winners are selected in three categories: Picture Book, Fiction and Poetry, and Nonfiction. || Odyssey Award The best audiobook produced for children and/or young adults, available in English in the United States ||
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**OTHER GREAT READS - BOOK LISTS**
[|ALA Teen Top Ten] [|New Teen Books - A List from the Salt Lake County Library] [|Salt Lake County Library's Teen Space] [|Corey's Book Reviews] and Corey on Twitter and [|Corey on Facebook]

ONLINE BOOKS
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 * Have nearly everything read to you at [|Read The Words.com] Give it a try!
 * Find AudioBooks from over 30 different websites! [|http://itunes.wikispaces.com/Only+Audio]
 * [|LookyBooks] is a great resource for children's books. The pages of the books actually turn on screen.
 * [|Online books from Penn University]
 * Audiobooks - [|www.audiobookcommunity.com]


 * Repairing Books**
 * 1) "Tipping-in" a torn-out page []
 * 2) Repairing a loose hinge []
 * 3) Repairing a broken hardback book hinge with single-stitched binder tape []
 * 4) Re-hinging a hardback book with double-stitched binder tape []
 * 5) One way of taping frayed book cover corners – use Tyvek or other book tape [] (I actually saw a slightly better way of doing this at a training, but couldn’t find a video that showed that method – I may have to make my own video of it sometime)
 * 6) Amateur book re-glue (there’s no one true way - don’t be afraid to experiment and try stuff) []
 * 7) Get rid of foul odors in books? []

DEMCO has a whole playlist of book repair videos that can be useful: [|http://www.youtube.com/user/DEMCOinc#p/c/9876A71BE2C6220C]