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Check out our 2025 Summer Reading Challenge – Passport to Adventure<\/a>!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Uni High Reads blog<\/a> features book reviews written by Uni students and library staff. Reach out to a staff member if you would like to contribute!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Novelist Plus<\/a>\u00a0provides information on books and authors including reviews, read-alikes, book lists and book discussion guides.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Book Riot YA News<\/a> is a website that gathers all the latest information on what’s happening in the young adult literature community.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Goodreads Choice Awards is an annual book competition, with the winners voted on by readers and members of Goodreads!<\/p>\n

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Check out 2024’s two Young Adult winners in Fiction<\/a> and Fantasy<\/a>. <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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For Instagram users, check out @reading_rants_redux<\/a>. Run by Jen Hubert Swan, this Gen-X Librarian reviews YA books and posts photos from bookish adventures. This account also revitalizes old reviews from (now defunct but still navigable) Reading Rants<\/a> – a website featuring out of the ordinary booklists for teens.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Lincoln Award nominees<\/a> is a list of 20 high-quality, high-interest books selected by a committee of Illinois high school librarians, teachers, public librarians, and students. Students who read 4 or more titles from this list are eligible to vote for their favorite.<\/p>\n

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Check out past winners and nomination masterlists here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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We Need Diverse Books<\/a> is a non-profit dedicated to diversifying the publishing industry and promoting literature that reflects and honors the lives of all young people. Check out their guide on where to find diverse books<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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We Need Diverse Books also provides educational resources<\/a> for students, teachers, parents, creative professionals, booksellers, and publishers. <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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