[OPLINLIST] YA Readers: James Cook Book Award Nominations Open!

[Marisha Sullivan]

OLC's only book award is now accepting book nominations for our 2021 cycle. If you read diverse YA literature--fiction or nonfiction--please consider nominating your favorites!

In order to be eligible, books must:

Have a U.S. copyright date of 2019 or 2020
Demonstrate excellence in writing
Contain a teen as one of the main characters
Promote cultural, ethnic, or social diversity
Have wide appeal to a teen audience (grades 6-12)

For more information or to nominate your picks, check out http://www.olc.org/james-cook-book-award

Marisha Sullivan, MLIS
She/her/hers
2021 Chair of the James Cook Book Award
Youth Librarian
Stark Library, DeHoff Branch

p:   330.452.9014
e:   msullivan at starklibrary.org