Junior Library Guild is a book review and collection development service helping thousands of school and public libraries acquire the best new children’s and young adult books, saving them both time and money.

Junior Library Guild is a privately held company based in Plain City, Ohio. Founded in 1929, JLG provides the very best customer service in the industry. Our services help librarians with collection development and our members trust us to put only the best books into the hands of their eager young readers.

Season after season, year after year, their book selections go on to win awards, collect starred or favorable reviews, and earn industry honors. We send these books on a monthly basis to our members, who receive them hot off the presses.

JLG selects books with the same care and attention you use when building your collection. Our editors know the children’s and young-adult literature landscape like no one else. And this credibility gives us a unique advantage, which benefits our members every month. The JLG editorial team reads the best books of the year well before they’re published. Publishers large and small value the prestige that comes with having their books named JLG Selections. They allow us to read and review more than 3,000 of their most anticipated books in manuscript or in preproduction stages. After narrowing that group to the very best 828 titles, we place our orders well in advance of publication dates (all JLG books are first editions) to provide you with new-release titles soon after they are first released.

This is how JLG membership allows you to get tomorrow’s award winners today.

“We read thousands of books every year and select only the best”

The JLG editorial team reviews more than 3,000 new titles each year, in manuscript or prepublication stage. We’ve developed a keen sense for finding the best of the best. Over 95 percent of our selections go on to receive awards and/or favorable reviews. And, according to statistics provided by Collection HQ, from 2013 to 2014 JLG Selections circulated 81% more than other books published for children and teens.*

These reading lists for children and teens are designed to help libraries promote New York State-related recreational summer reading. The program encourages schools and school libraries to contact and partner with public libraries in their communities to make students and parents fully aware of everything that public libraries have to offer over the summer. Click here for the full list.

Iowa Children’s Choice Award: Grades 3-6

• The purpose of the Iowa Children’s Choice Award is:
• To encourage children to read more and better books.
• To provide an avenue for positive dialogue between teachers, parents, and children about books and authors.
• To give recognition to those who write books for children.

The Iowa book awards are unique in that they give children an opportunity to choose the book to receive the award and to suggest books for the yearly reading list.

In the spring, 3rd through 6th grade students across Iowa take part in the nomination of books for the Iowa Children’s Choice Award.  The nominations may come exclusively from these students so that it is ensured that these are the favorites of students in this age group. Nominations are not allowed from authors or publishers. After the suggestions are submitted, these books are reviewed by the committee and volunteer readers and the list is narrowed.  During the summer, the adult readers read and rate the titles.  The committee members finalize the list a year ahead of time.