Each year the American Library Association honors books, videos, and other outstanding materials for children and teens. Recognized worldwide for the high quality they represent, the ALA Youth Media Awards, including the prestigious Newbery, Caldecott, Printz, and Coretta Scott King Book Awards, guide parents, educators, librarians, and others in selecting the best materials for youth. Selected by committees composed of librarians and other literature and media experts, the awards encourage original and creative work in the field of children’s and young adult literature and media.
Common Sense Media helps families make smart media choices. It offers the largest, most trusted library of independent age-based and educational ratings and reviews for movies, games, apps, TV shows, websites, books, and music. The Parent Concerns and Parent Blog help families understand and navigate the problems and possibilities of raising children in the digital age.
A Mighty Girl’s book section features over 2,000 girl-empowering books starring stellar Mighty Girl characters. With over 200 book categories to explore, the best way to discover what this section has to offer is by browsing the detailed book menu — just mouse over the ‘Books’ button on the menu bar above. From there you can choose the categories of interest to you and then use the filters on the left-menu to further refine your search.
The National Science Teaching Association (NSTA) is a vibrant community of 40,000 members — science educators and professionals committed to best practices in teaching science and STEM and its impact on student learning.
Search Institute has identified the building blocks of healthy development—known as Developmental Assets—that help young children grow up healthy, caring, and responsible.
YALSA’s Teen Book Finder is a free app to help teens, parents, librarians and library staff, educators, and anyone who loves Young Adult literature access to the past three years’ of YALSA’s awards and lists on their smartphone.