Goodreads choice award winners

Goodreads awards go to the books voted most popular by its community. They include Young Adult, Young Adult Fantasy, Middle grade and childrens and Picture Books. Announced early December:
https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-books-2014

YALSA: Young Adult LIbrary Services Association

Lists of books etc for YA's: http://www.yalsa.ala.org/thehub/2014/10/20/2014-teens-top-ten-titles-announced/

The Bottom Shelf

Barbara Braxton's Bottom Shelf contains lists of the best of the best children's books.

Links for Good books

Dymocks’101 best books 2012
Try a book from this list, as voted by 15 000 Aust. readers.

Goodreads

The largest site for readers and book recommendations in the world - a great place to find out about excellent books, popular books, genres, quizzes and quotations. 

The best 100 opening lines from books
Click on the book covers to reveal the lines from excellent books, old and new.

100 best closing lines from books
100 best films based on books 

Literary Awards Australia
Award-winning books - gateway to 300 Aust, US, British, Canadian, NZ & Irish awards. Currently being updated.

Prime Minister’s Literary Awards

Winners and shortlist for 2012.

Australian Independent Bookseller
Weekly Top 10 bestsellers; book news, Indie Awards chosen annually. This year's Indie Award: All that I am by Anna Funder (also won the Miles Franklin Award).

National Year of Reading

More links about reading

The Indigenous Literacy Foundation
The ILF helps to raise literacy levels in remote indigenous communities by donating books and supporting community literacy projects. Over 60 000 books have been donated to over 200 areas in the last few years and some stories have been translated into indigenous languages. Indigenous Literacy Day is Wed 5 Sept 2012.

Children’s Book Council of Australia

Winners 2012   Notable books 2012  

Australian Best Reads

This is a very nice site, not only for lists of great reads, but for links to sites which review resources, eg under subject areas.

From an email sent by Barbara Braxton:

Best reads for Australian Kids http://australian-best-reads.wikispaces.com/ is designed to be a database where we can recommend must-reads for students from K-12. There are also pages for sharing information about the best apps, blogs about books, read and review, e-books, and book trailers. It is not limited to Australian authors and as well as the 'classics' we are hoping to get recommendations for new publications as well so we can all expand our knowledge and introduce students to things beyond the 'tried-and-true'.. It began because I discovered that the Top 100 books in Australian school libraries has hardly changed since I retired in 2006, and what was there in 2006 had hardly changed for many years as well. To join, you will need to click on "Join" in the top menu bar and do what is required. I'll approve it asap but if you don't leave an email address, you will not get notification.

Koala Book Awards

Kids Own Australian Literature Awards are annual awards made by young readers in NSW to the Australian books they have most enjoyed reading during that year. The Shortlist is a good source of titles.

http://www.koalansw.org.au/index.html

YALSA's Top Ten Teen Reads

From http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/teenreading/teenstopten/teenstopten.cfmThe 2010 Teens' Top Ten is:

1. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
2. City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
3. Heist Society by Ally Carter
4. Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
5. Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
6. Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
7. Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen
8. If I Stay by Gayle Forman
9. Fire by Kristin Cashore
10. Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson

UKLA

UK Literacy Association (UKLA) Children’s Book Awards longlist has been announced. A great list of books to order:

http://www.ukla.org/awards/ukla_childrens_book_award_2011/
From Random House: "The prestigious longlist has traditionally been a major indicator of the best children books for inclusion in classrooms and schools."

YA biographies

From OZTL_NET a list of YA biographies. I think I've got them all except for the pop stars and American actresses:




Lionheart - Jesse Martin
Open - Andre Agassi
Nine lives - Adam Ramanauskas
It's not about the bike - Lance Armstrong
Boy, Going Solo - Roald Dahl
Off the Rails - Tim Cope
Getting a Grip - Monica Seles
Between a rock and a hard place - Aron Ralston
Boy called It (series) - Dave Pelzer
Mao's Last Dancer - Li Cunxin
Eli's wings - Elizabeth Best
Born to run, my story - Cathy Freeman
Rock Chicks (Steven-Taylor)
Miley Cyrus' autobiography Miles to Go
Hannah Montana (two different bios by Janic and Magid)
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have a big glossy book called Influence in which they interview designers
Princess (Sasson)
Not without my Daughter (Mahmoody)
Asylum (Heather Tyler)
The Glory Garage (Jamal and Chandab)
Married by Force (Leila)
Sold (Muhsen )
My forbidden Face (Latifa)
Wild Swans (Chang)
Falling Leaves (Mah)
Concubine's Children (Chong)
Read Scarf Girl (Jiang)
A long way gone - memoirs of a boy solider - Ishmail Beah
Facing up : a remarkable journey to the summit of Mt Everest - Bear Grylls
The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
Little Girls Lost (Story of some murdered girls including two local girls at
Bega)
Chinese Cinderella
Burned Alive
Anna's Story -story of the first death from Ecstasy in Australia in 1996
Romulus My Father
Layne Beachley: Beneath the Waves
Stick figure: a diary of my former self (Lori Gottlieb) - eating disorders
Soul Surfer (Bethany Hamilton) - survivng a shark attack
Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt (Natalie Jane Prior)
Desert Flower: the extraordinary life of a desert nomad (Waris Dirie)
Soldier Boy: the true story of Jim Martin the youngest ANZAC (Anthony Hill
Just don't fall / Josh Sundquist
Marley & Me / John Grogan
Bad boy / Walter Dean Myers
Three cups of Tea / Greg Mortinson - this and its sequel 'Stones into Schools'
The black dress - Pamela Freeman - this is about Mary McKillop
Cross and the switchblade - David Wilkerson
My complete, illustrated career - Shane Warne

Top 100

I came across a useful list of the Top 100 Australian books for children based on the Educational Lending Right School Library Survey 2009-10. I'll only have to order ten of them!

Guess which is No.1