• Green Mountain Book Award (GMBA)
• YALSA Book and Media Awards 
• National Book Awards  
• History of The Pulitzer Prizes  
• Essex High School Library Catalog: 
  • On the Basic Search page Limiters
  • From the drop-down next to Award Winner, select your state or Literary Prizes.
  • In the second drop-down that appears, leave it at All, or select the name of the award

 Book Recommendations

• Green Mountain Award Books (GMBA) Nominees 2020-21. Use EWSD Google login
• Green Mountain Award Books (GMBA) Nominees 2019-20
• YALSA's Best of the Best 
• Completed YA Book Series
• What Should I Read Next?

Copyright Friendly Resources

• Copyright friendly images, music, sound effects, and videos
• Free Music Archive
• Royalty-Free Music by Bensound 
• American Memory (Library of Congress)
• Library of Congress Flickr stream 
• A-List of Websites to get Royalty-free or Almost Free Media
• Legal Sources for Online Music and Videos

Informational and Primary Sources

• Smithsonian Learning Lab: Discover, Create, Share
• Finding Primary Sources (Library of Congress)
• DocsTeach (from the National Archives)
• The World Factbook

Stay Sharp

• Stay Sharp (this summer) - The EHS Stay Sharp summer learning website has links to book ideas as well as online classes, podcasts, blogs, etc. to keep you engaged while not in school.