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ShelfTalkers : Book Reviews by Australian Students

Free book PDFs - BooksVook - full text

Project Gutenberg free ebooks

Book Trailers

Just like a movie trailer - but for books! You can even make and share your own!

Digital BookTalk
The Creative Penn - lots of ideas on book marketing
Booktease

Blogs about reading Young Adult Lit

Inside a dog - State Library of Victoria Youth Lit blog

'Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.' - Groucho Marx
LitPick
Reviews undertaken by young adults themselves about young adult books. You can even sign up to be a reviewer!
Epic Reads
Your source for all things YA, including reviews, quizzes, and interviews. Follow them on Twitter, Tumblr or Instagram.

Series book lovers! Click on logo to enter!

Cereal Readers is a book resource website where you can find books published in series for children and young adults. We recognize that books in series are vitally important to both avid and reluctant readers alike.

Seriously Series-Centric

This whole site is series focused in structure with the following features:
Series summary and detailed description of each book

Easy to navigate list of all books in a series
View series books in reading sequence
Printer-friendly list of titles to take to the library or bookstore
Detailed information on authors, including series by author
Search age categories for series by reading level
Keyword search for genres of interest

Geelong Regional Library Corporation

Great Reads and Recommendations

Australian Book Industry Awards

The Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) is an annual celebration that celebrates the connection between Australian readers and the ‘book makers’ – authors, editors, publishing professionals and retailers, who unite to create the must-read books of the year.

The Stella Prize

The Stella Prize is a major literary award celebrating Australian women’s writing, and an organisation that champions cultural change. The prize is named after one of Australia’s iconic female authors, Stella Maria Sarah ‘Miles’ Franklin, and both nonfiction & fiction books by Australian women are eligible for entry.
Newbery Medal
The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
The CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals

The CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals are the UK's oldest and most prestigious children's book awards. Often described by authors and illustrators as 'the one they want to win', they are the gold standard in children's literature. The CILIP Carnegie Medal is awarded by children's librarians for an outstanding book written in English for children and young people.
The Man Booker Prize
The Man Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for five decades. The Man Booker International Prize is awarded annually for a single book, translated into English and published in the UK.
The Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.