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Edited to add: this is a repost of an email by Kelly Mil­ner Halls to yalsa-bk, used with Kelly’s per­mis­sion. Two stu­dents at Mont­gomery County High School, Diana Ban­deras and Stephanie Bel­lot, have orga­nized a free speech rally in Mount Ster­ling, Ken­tucky to protest the chal­lenge by par­ents and school board super­in­ten­dent Daniel Free­man of …

YALSA has announced the five titles for the 2010 Mor­ris Award short­list. YALSA will name the Mor­ris Award win­ner at the Youth Media Awards in Boston at ALA’s Mid­win­ter Meet­ing on Jan. 18. YALSA will also honor the win­ning title, as well as Mor­ris short­list titles and YALSA Non­fic­tion Award win­ners at a recep­tion on …

The Assem­bly on Lit­er­a­ture for Ado­les­cents (ALAN) of the National Coun­cil of Teach­ers of Eng­lish (NCTE) is pleased and proud to announce the win­ner of the inau­gural Amelia Eliz­a­beth Walden Book Award for Young Adult Fic­tion.  Estab­lished in 2008 to honor the wishes of young adult author, Amelia Eliz­a­beth Walden, the award allows for the …