Contributors to the blog include academic and youth-serving librarians,  BYU students and faculty,  literacy experts, educators, authors, and illustrators.

A monitored discussion forum provides the opportunity  to share successful literacy activities with others and to ask questions of discussion participants.

Contributors to the blog include academic and youth-serving librarians,  BYU students and faculty,  literacy experts, educators, authors, and illustrators.

A monitored discussion forum provides the opportunity  to share successful literacy activities with others and to ask questions of discussion participants.

1. Open the HBLL homepage.
2. Select “Library Catalog” under Unique Collections at BYU
3. Below the main search bar choose “Advanced Keyword Search”
4. Go to the pull-down menu labeled search all and type in a term that represents the subject of your search, such as “World War II.” If you are looking for both fiction and non-fiction books go to the pull-down menu labeled location and select Juvenile Collection. Search. The newer books will be listed first.
5. Display the details for at least one item to find the official subject terms for your search. For World War II, the subject term is “World War, 1939-1945.” Use this term to refine your search.
6. To limit your search to fictional books, go to the pull-down menu labeled subject and type “Juvenile fiction.” Search.
7. To limit your search to non-fiction books, go to the pull-down menu labeled subject and type “Juvenile literature.” Search.

To find websites on social studies topics:

1. Search the following search engines that are designed for use by young people using a term that represents the subject of your search:

Quintura for Kids

• Intended for use by children grades K-6.
• Quintura is a filtered search engine based on the Yahoo! Kids search engine but with an innovative visual mind map browsing capability.

Ask for Kids

• Intended for use by children in grades K-6.
• Ask for Kids is a filtered web search engine associated with Ask.com. All websites accessible through the search engine are selected by editors on the criteria of appropriateness, depth, quality, and style.

Contributors to the blog include academic and youth-serving librarians,  BYU students and faculty,  literacy experts, educators, authors, and illustrators.

Caldecott Medal:

The House in the Night, illustrated by Beth Krommes and written by Susan Marie Swanson, Houghton Mifflin Co.Caldecott Honor Books:

A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever by Marla Frazee, Harcourt, Inc.

How I Learned Geography by Uri Shulevitz, Farrar Straus Giroux

A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams, illustrated by Melissa Sweet and written by Jen Bryant, Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

Newbery Medal:

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, HarperCollins Children’s Books

Newbery Honor Books:

The Underneath by Kathi Appelt, illustrated by David Small, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing

The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle, Henry Holt and Company, LLC

Savvy by Ingrid Law, Dial Books for Young Readers, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group in partnership with Walden Media, LLC

After Tupac and D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, a division of Penguin Books for Young Readers

Printz Medal Book:

Melina Marchetta, author of Jellicoe Road, published by HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

Printz Honor Books:

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II, The Kingdom on the Waves, by M.T. Anderson, published by Candlewick Press

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, by E. Lockhart, published by Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group

Nation, by Terry Pratchett, published by HarperCollins Children’s Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers

Tender Morsels, by Margo Lanagan, published by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

Sibert Medal:

We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball written and illustrated by Kadir Nelson, Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group

Sibert Honor Books:

Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and Rediscovery of The Past, written by James M. Deem and published by Houghton Mifflin Company

What to Do About Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy! written by Barbara Kerley, illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham and published by Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc.