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Developmental Milestones of Early Literacy, written by pediatricians, provides guidance for parents and doctors on appropriate book-related behaviors for ages 6 months – 5 years.

When loving parents share books with them, children will develop an early positive attachment to books. The Developmental Milestones Chart outlines the motor and cognitive skill development — related to reading — at various age ranges. Also included are tips for parents to aid in the development of the child’s attachment to books and reading skills.

Milestones Chart (English) Milestones Chart (Spanish)


Tips on Reading and Choosing Books provide downloadable guidance on how to make reading a pleasurable activity, and for help identifying the appropriate books for young children.

Annotated Book List

Annotated Book List
Books available in Spanish
Alphabet Books
Counting Books

www.ala.org/yalsa/booklists

These 26 titles were nominated for 2009 Teen Read week

Lady Katsa is born with a Grace (super talent) of killing and her uncle, the king, makes

her his brute squad. When she meets Po, a rival kingdom’s Graceling, she becomes more

powerful as a woman of justice, self knowledge, and romance.

At finishing school for young vampyres, Zoey makes a shocking discovery about the school’s leader, but no one will

listen to her as her undead friends and 3 boyfriends turnagainst her. Loyalties are strained, truths

are revealed, and an ancient evil is awakened inCast’s fourth House of Night novel.

The second in the Mortal Instruments trilogy, this volume continues the saga of Clary and her best

friend Simon as they struggle to find their place in a magical world parallel to their NYC home.

Demon-fighting shadowhunters, vampires, warlocks, werewolves, faeries, and a master villain

named Valentine provide a heart-pounding backdrop as Claryuncovers secrets about her past.

To save her young sister from competing, Katniss Everdeen takes her place in the annual

Hunger Games, a televised competition in which only one person, the winner, survives.

By turns an adventure, a love story, and a futuristic thriller, this is the first in a planned

trilogy.

In the totalitarian society that Tack lives in, a rebel group called the Truancy is fighting

for freedom. But Tack vows revenge on the Truancy when someone he loves is killed

accidentally during one of their attacks on the government.

Umasi and Zen, adopted and raised in a life of privilege, are horrified to discover that

their father is behind the restrictive policies of their city. One brother will be driven to

rebellion.

When a toddler wanders away from his home just before assassins slay his family, he

ends up in a graveyard. Named Nobody Owens, the ghosts and other denizens of the

cemetery adopt him and teach him important skills he will need to survive.

When they were little, Margo Roth Spiegelman was Q’s best friend. Now, a month before

high school graduation, she disappears after taking Q on a night of pranks involving dead

fish and a depilatory, sending him on a quest to find her.

Maddie is shunned by the town because of the mysterious rune mark on her hand. This

same rune mark will shatter her dull existence as it propels her into the center of a war

between the new controlling religious government and the Norse gods of old.

Identical teenage twins, Raeanne and Kaeleigh, respond in totally opposite ways to the

abuse and abandonment from their parents. One twin finds bulimia and cutting eases the

pain and helps her to maintain her passivity, while the other, more rebellious twin sinks

into the world of drugs and sex.

Zachary, a guardian angel has, against all rules, fallen in love with his charge. When he

sees Miranda sleeping in the shadow of death, his attempt to save her hurls her into life as

a vampire princess and exiles him from heaven.

When Frankie’s boyfriend joins a secret society that she isn’t supposed to know anything

about, she surprises everyone—including herself—by trying to beat them and become the

biggest prankster of them all.

Zira bears scars from the battle that left her orphaned and in the care of the Ruan people.

When a tyrant king threatens her home, Zira seeks help from an unlikely romantic

interest and uncovers the truth about her past.

Going to sleep isn’t a big deal for most of us, but for Janie, falling asleep means getting

sucked into other people’s dreams. The supernatural ability she’s always considered a

nuisance quickly becomes a nightmare when she blunders into a dream and witnesses a

murder.

In this, the fourth and final installment of the Twilight Saga, Bella’s new life as the wife

of vampire Edward Cullen is wrought with unexpected obstacles, difficult decisions, and

potentially overwhelming outcomes.

In the brutal world of Dark Age Britain, Essa fights for his life, his identity, and the lives

of those he loves. Paolini and Tolkien fans will be drawn in.

Dangerous secrets can even be hidden in a world where all men and animals hear each

others’ thoughts. Because all women died shortly after he was born, Todd Hewitt is the

last boy left in his town. When he learns a dangerous secret, he runs for his life with his

dog and finds something even more surprising: a girl!

Her life ripped apart by a tragic accident that killed her family, Ever struggles with her

newfound ability to hear people’s thoughts. Enter Damen, the new boy who seems the

perfect distraction — except he doesn’t eat or drink, and soon Ever discovers a

supernatural new world of which she is now part.

Dylan’s middle name is “crisis.” It seems to follow her wherever she goes. First she

catches her boyfriend staring at another girl. Then her beautiful designer bag takes a

swim in a fountain. However, along with crisis comes opportunity, and Dylan’s Beverly

Hills world is about to be turned upside-down.

All life, both plant and animal, on the Battle Islands is mysteriously dying. Stone mage

Evvy responds to the islander’s call for help. They need her magic to solve the mystery.

Accompanied by her friend and mentor, Luvo, she uncovers the deep secret revealed by

the stones and the volcano. Will it be in time to rescue the children?

Alice was kidnapped when she was young and is forced to pretend to be a little girl to

please Ray. She could never escape and wishes for death. Soon her wish will become

true, as she had become too old and now she must find Ray a replacement for her.

Because she wants to fly and to support her soldier brother, 18-year-old Ida May Jones

passes for white amidst obstacles of race and gender and joins the Women Airforce

Service Pilots (WASP) during World War II.

Two years after 16-year-old Ellie’s older sister, Nina, disappeared, Ellie pieces together

clues to her whereabouts and heads out on a road trip that leads to murder and mystery

with her hot new boyfriend, Sean.

This gentle story details young teen Lucy’s rape and subsequent pregnancy, with an

amazingly supportive cast of a faithful boyfriend and loving parents. A fairy tale set in

the present, with flashes of realism and romance.

Maybe (short for Maybelline, her mother’s favorite mascara) leaves home and heads to

California on a mission to find her biological father, and avoid her mother’s planned

wedding number seven.

Book Lists, Suggested Reading Lists courtesy of YALSA

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