Featured resources from TeachingBooks.
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January 2026
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Celebrate Award Season with TeachingBooks!
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It's book award season! With the recent announcement of Youth Media Award winners and honorees from American Library Association, TeachingBooks is here for you. Dive into TeachingBooks' complete collection of more than
150 national book awards and distinctions.
- Filter awards by your interests, including: grade level, curricular area, cultural experience, and genre
- Explore an additional 500+ state and provincial reading programs (Pro tip: search by your state or province name to hone in)
And just for fun, TeachingBooks always maintains this collection of Recent Book Award Winners & Honorees, where we display for you the titles that most recently won each national book award.
- Enjoy more than 20,000 resources for these current titles
- Play concentration with these beautiful covers
- Sort to see titles that won the most awards
Enjoy celebrating these awards and distinguished titles. And know that throughout this award season, TeachingBooks will be updating our lists so that you can have dynamic connections to these books and their creators.
Let us know how you're using TeachingBooks this award season!
Our best,
The TeachingBooks Team
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Featured Booklist: William C. Morris Debut Award
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Are your teen readers looking for something new? Each year, the William C. Morris Award finds and selects impressive books by first-time authors of young adult literature. Visit the TeachingBooks display of finalists and winners for ideas to incorporate some fresh voices into your book discussions and reading recommendations.
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Booklist
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Book Awards on TeachingBooks
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Indoor Recess Ideas
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Oh, the weather outside is frightful... but indoor recess can be both fun and productive! Foster creativity and learning with ideas from TeachingBooks that will engage your readers.
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TeachingBooks in Action posts
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And the Winner Is... 2026 Award-Winning Books and Resources
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Explore resources to engage your readers as you feature new award-winning titles from the ALA Youth Media Awards, announced on January 26th. Join us for a short celebration of the titles that won... and maybe even some more you shouldn't miss!
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Tuesday, February 17, 2026 1:00 CT
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Eric Velasquez on The Polar Bear and the Ballerina
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In The Polar Bear and the Ballerina (Holiday House, 2025), author-illustrator Eric Velasquez weaves a dreamlike, wordless tale inspired by a real polar bear at the Central Park Zoo and a visit to the New York City Ballet. Visit the blog post to hear Velasquez share how empathy, movement, and music shaped this story about unexpected friendship.
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Virtual Book Tour posts
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Meet-the-Author Recording: Betty Before X with Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson
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Listen to authors Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson discuss their middle grade book Betty Before X (Macmillan, 2018), in which they explore the childhood of Ilyasah's mom Betty Shabazz, who went on to become a civil rights advocate and the wife of Malcolm X.
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