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You get valuable, useful information right at Generations of librarians have relied on Junior Library Guild’s your fi ngertips—free with your membership. editors to help them connect their young patrons with a satisfying read. Our track record of identifying upcoming award winners and future classics is unmatched. What’s Inside: JLG’s Record of Success ..........................................4 JLG Guides .................................................................38 Current Selections by Reading Level ................ 6 Collection Development Packages ..................39 Additional Benefi ts: Web site, Posters, Backlist, JLG Monthly .......34 2 | 800-491-0174 Collection Deve lopment Made Easy Junior Library Guild How Does JLG Do It? An Unfair Advantage The Best Selections for ALL Grade Levels More than 17,000 Junior Library Guild members trust our JLG membership makes it easy to manage the grade-level mix of your selections. Our member librarians have seen, season after season, collection. Books are offered in reading levels from pre-K through young year after year, that we provide them with great books—ones that adult. Additional levels focusing on special interests such as sports, go on to win awards, collect starred or favorable reviews, and earn fantasy and science fi ction, biographies, and graphic novels are available industry honors. In short, JLG selects the same books you would to help round out your collection. choose on your own. You can also take advantage of one of JLG’s Collection Development But the JLG editorial team has an unfair advantage—we get to Packages—combinations of reading levels that are specifi cally tailored read the best books of the year before they’re published. Publishers, for Elementary, Middle/Junior High, or High School readers. Whatever large and small, provide us with the opportunity to read and review your budget, there’s a package available to provide your library the most more than 3,000 manuscripts every year. After thinning that down complete coverage possible. And because no one knows your needs to the very best 336 selections, we are able to join the publishers’ better than you, all packages are completely customizable. initial print runs (all JLG books are fi rst editions) and provide For a complete description of JLG’s Collection Development Packages, you with new titles soon after they are released. see page 39. Your JLG membership allows you to get tomorrow’s award winners today. By the time The House in the Night was awarded the 2009 Caldecott Medal, it had already been on JLG members’ shelves for fi ve months. 336 JLG selections Publishers’ More than 95% 3,000+ submissions of our selections go on to receive awards to JLG and favorable reviews. Manuscripts 195,000 published Manuscripts 1 Million+ submitted to publishers Annual U.S. statistics www.juniorlibraryguild.com | 3 Collection Deve lopment Made Easy Junior Library Guild JLG Selects the Titles Destined for Future Awards! We’ve been asked more than once if our editorial staff has a crystal ball in This means that by the time the awards are announced, JLG members their offi ce. Why? Because time and again, year after year, the titles they are ahead of the game—because most of the winners will already be on choose go on to earn the industry’s most highly esteemed accolades. In their shelves. (Remember, we select them before they’re honored with fact, more than 95 percent of our carefully selected books later receive these distinctions.) What’s more, many previous award winners are also other major awards or favorable reviews. available in our backlist for as low as $5.00 each. Just a few of our recent award winners: The John Newbery Medal, 2009 The Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction, 2009 The Graveyard Book (Winner) Chains (Winner) The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom (Honor Book) The Schneider Family Book Award, 2009 The Randolph Caldecott Medal, 2009 Waiting for Normal (Winner, Middle School) The House in the Night (Winner) The William C. Morris YA Debut Award, 2009 A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams (Honor Book) A Curse Dark as Gold (Winner) The Michael L. Printz Award, 2009 The National Book Award, Young People’s Literature, 2008 The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: Volume II, Chains (Finalist) The Kingdom on the Waves (Honor Book) The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (Finalist) The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (Honor Book) Nation (Honor Book) The Charlotte Zolotow Award, 2009 Tender Morsels (Honor Book) How to Heal a Broken Wing (Winner) In a Blue Room (Honor Book) The Coretta Scott King Award, 2009 A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams (Honor Book) Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane (Illustrator Honor) Silent Music: A Story of Baghdad (Honor Book) The Pura Belpré Award, 2009 The Butter Man (Highly Commended) The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom (Winner) The Chicken of the Family (Highly Commended) What Do You Do with a Rebozo? (Illustrator Honor) The Sydney Taylor Book Award, 2009 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards, 2008 Brooklyn Bridge (Winner, Older Readers) The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Winner, Fiction and Poetry) NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfi ction, 2009 The Arrival (Special Citation) The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary (Honorable Mention) Nic Bishop Frogs (Honor Book, Nonfi ction) Washington at Valley Forge (Honorable Mention) Shooting the Moon (Honor Book, Fiction and Poetry) A Boy Named Beckoning: The True Story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American Hero (Recommended Book) A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams (Recommended Book) 4 | 800-491-0174 Collection Deve lopment Made Easy Junior Library Guild JLG Selects the Titles JLG Picks the Best Books— Destined for Future Awards! Time After Time Want more proof that we choose our books before they go on to win industry honors? Take a look at this time line detailing the chain of events for just two of our selections. Note their publication dates, the dates they were shipped from Junior Library Guild, and the numerous starred reviews and awards they later received. Selected by JLG Publication Date JLG Shipping Date 9/07 5/08 7/08 Kirkus Reviews, Kirkus Reviews, Best The Randolph Starred Review, 4/08 Children’s Books, Caldecott Medal, 1/09 11/08 School Library Journal, 2008 Booklist Editors’ Choice, Starred Review, 4/08 2008 Publishers Top of the List, Weekly Best Books of Youth Picture Book, 1/09 Booklist, Starred the Year, 11/08 Review, 4/08 ALA Notable Children’s Books, 1/09