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Series and Sequels

• The 'Juvenile Series and Sequels' database
  currently contains over 22,000 books in series titles that are searchable by title, subject or author and which are classified into three audiences:
   
  • Young Adult – for high school-aged readers
  • Juvenile – appropriate for grade school through junior high-aged readers
  • Juvenile Easy – for young readers just beginning to read
     
• Los Angeles Public Library “Series and Sequels”  
  A listing of fiction books for adults which are part of a series, or are sequels to earlier novels. Can be searched by author, title and series name or characters.

Award Winners

• Newbery Medal
  The Newbery Medal is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children and youth.
   
• The Printz Award
  The Michael L. Printz Award is an award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature. The award is sponsored by Booklist, a publication of the American Library Association and is awarded annually by the Young Adult Library Services Association.
   
• The Belpre Award Medal
  The Belpre Award medal honors a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose works best portray, affirm, and celebrate the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.
   
• Best Books for Young Adults
  Best Books is an annual list of books published in the past 16 months that are recommended reading for young adults 12 to 18. It is a general list of fiction and nonfiction titles selected for their proven or potential appeal to the personal reading tastes of the young adult.
   
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