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Youth Corner
Please find below links to selected U.S. government websites that have special pages or reports for youth or children
- U.S. Department of State student programs: http://www.careers.state.gov/student/index.html
- U.S. Department of State Publications for Students: http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/students/
- The White House kids page: http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/
- U.S. Capitol: http://www.aoc.gov/cvc/kids/index.cfm
U.S. State Department Electronic Journals:
- American Teenagers: It shouldn't have been a surprise. We should have known what would happen. After all, we were once teenagers ourselves…
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itsv/0705/ijse/ijse0705.htm
College and University Education in the United States: From the many types of institutions to the virtually unlimited array of programs and majors, the universities and colleges in the United States reflect the diversity, tolerance, and pursuit of excellence that characterize the best of the country as a whole...
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itsv/1105/ijse/ijse1105.htm
Newbery Medal Award Winners
http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/
newberymedal/newberymedal.htm
Since 1922, the Newbery Medal has been awarded annually by the American Library Association for the most distinguished American children's book published the previous year. The Newbery Award was the first children's book award in the world. Its terms, as well as its long history, continue to make it the best known and most discussed children's book award in the United States.
Listed below are the medal winner and honor books for the last 10 years:
2006 Medal Winner: Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins)
Honor Books:
- Whittington by Alan Armstrong, illustrated by S.D. Schindler (Random House)
- Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Scholastic)
- Princess Academy by Shannon Hale (Bloomsbury Children's Books)
- Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Hudson Talbott (G.P. Putnam's Sons)
2005 Medal Winner: Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)
Honor Books:
- Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko (G.P. Putnam's Sons/a division of Penguin Young Readers Group)
- The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin)
- Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin)
2004 Medal Winner: The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering, (Candlewick Press)
Honor Books:
- Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow Books)
- An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy (Clarion Books)
2003 Medal Winner: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi (Hyperion Books for Children)
Honor Books:
- The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer (Atheneum)
- Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff (Random House/Wendy Lamb Books
- Hoot by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf)
- A Corner of The Universe by Ann M. Martin (Scholastic)
- Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan (HarperCollins)
2002 Medal Winner: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin)
Honor Books:
- Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath (Farrar Straus Giroux)
- Carver: A Life In Poems by Marilyn Nelson (Front Street)
2001 Medal Winner: A Year Down Yonder by by Richard Peck (Dial)
Honor Books:
- Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
- Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick Press)
- Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
- The Wanderer by Sharon Creech (Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins)
2000 Medal Winner: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)
Honor Books:
- Getting Near to Baby by by Audrey Couloumbis (Putnam)
- Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm (HarperCollins)
- 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola (Putnam)
1999 Medal Winner: Holes by Louis Sachar (Frances Foster)
Honor Book:
- A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck (Dial)
1998 Medal Winner: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (Scholastic)
Honor Books:
- Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine (HarperCollins)
- Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff (Delacorte)
- Wringer by Jerry Spinelli (HarperCollins)
1997 Medal Winner: The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg (Jean Karl/Atheneum)
Honor Books:
- A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer (Richard Jackson/Orchard Books)
- Moorchild by Eloise McGraw (Margaret McElderry/Simon & Schuster)
- The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner (Greenwillow/Morrow)
- Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White (Farrar Straus Giroux)
1996 Medal Winner: The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman (Clarion)
Honor Books:
- What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman (Front Street)
- The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)
- Yolonda's Genius by Carol Fenner (Margaret K. McElderry/Simon & Schuster)
- The Great Fire by Jim Murphy (Scholastic)
Best Books for Young Adults 2006
YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association) List of Top Ten Best Books (fiction and non-fiction) for Young Adults for 2006. http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/booklistsbook.htm
Akbar, Said Hyder and Burton, Susan. Come Back to Afghanistan: A California Teenager's Story. Bloomsbury, 2005
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow. Scholastic, 2005
Buckhanon, Kalisha. Upstate. St. Martin's, 2005
Green, John. Looking for Alaska. Dutton, 2005
Lynch, Chris. Inexcusable. Simon & Schuster/Atheneum, 2005
Meyer, Stephanie. Twilight: A Novel. Little, Brown/Megan Tingley, 2005
Vaughan, Brian K. Runaways: Volume 1 HC. Illus. by Adrian Alphona. Marvel, 2005
Westerfeld, Scott. Peeps. Penguin/Razorbill, 2005
Wooding, Chris. Poison. Scholastic/Orchard, 2005
Zusak, Markus. I Am the Messenger. Knopf, 2005
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