Youth Services
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Services for Youth in Vermont
Hinesburg Community Resource Center Hinesburg Friends of Families, a branch of HCRC, offers free playgroups and other great resources for local families.
Help Me Grow Vermont is a statewide system for improving access to existing resources and services for expectant parents and families with young children through age 8.
Prevent Child Abuse Vermont promotes and supports healthy relationships within families, schools and communities to eliminate child abuse.
Building Bright Futures is Vermont’s Early Childhood State Advisory Council.
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides Federal grants to States for supplemental foods, health care referrals, and nutrition education for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding postpartum women, and to infants and children up to age five who are found to be at nutritional risk.
Children's Literacy Foundation aims to inspire a love of reading and writing among low-income, at-risk, and rural children up to age 12 throughout New Hampshire and Vermont.
Outright Vermont is a group whose vision is to build “a Vermont where all LGBTQ+ youth have hope, equity, and power!” Outright Vermont offers social and support groups for youth and families and training for youth-serving professionals.
WEBSITES FOR YOUTH & Parents
Vermont Youth Book Awards
The Red Clover Award promotes the reading and discussion of the best of contemporary picture books in nearly all of Vermont’s elementary schools. Each year over 20,000 K-4 students read, or have read to them, the ten nominated books. Students then vote to pick the winner.
2023-2024 Red Clover Winner: Bobcat Prowling
by Maria Gianferrari, illustrated by Bagram lbatoulline
2024-2025 Nominees:
Swimming Toward a Dream by Reem Faruqi, illustrated by Asma Enayeh
The Young Teacher and the Great Serpent by Irene Vasco, illustrated by Juan Palomino, translated by Lawrence Schimel
Who’s Afraid of the Light? by Anna McGregor
A Day With No Words by Tiffany Hammond, illustrated by Kate Cosgrove
Ancestory by Hannah Salyer
Elephant of Sadness, Butterfly of Joy by Patricia Austin, illustrated by Megan Baratte
I am a Tornado by Drew Beckmeyer
Jumper by Jessica Lanan
Nell Plants a Tree by Anne Wynter, illustrated by Daniel Miyares
Stranded: A Mostly True Story from Iceland by Ævar Þór Benediktsson, illustrated by Anne Wilson
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award
The Golden Dome Book Award was created to honor excellence in children's literature. Each year since 1957, Vermont students in grades four through eight have selected their favorite book from a list of 30 nominees. It is recommended that students read at least five of the year's nominated titles before voting. Voting takes place in the spring.
2023-2024 Golden Dome Book Award Winner: Odder by Katherine Applegate
2024-2025 Nominees:
Bea and the New Deal Horse By L.M. Elliott | Katherine Tegen Books
The Dreamatics By Michelle Cuevas | Rocky Pond Books
Enemies in the Orchard: A World War 2 Novel in Verse By Dana VanderLugt | Zonderkidz
Farther Than the Moon By Lindsay Lackey | Roaring Brook Press
The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn By Sally J. Pla | Quill Tree Books
The Ghosts of Rancho Espanto By Adrianna Cuevas | Farrar, Straus & Giroux
The Girl from Earth’s End By Tara Dairman | Candlewick
The Grace of Wild Things By Heather Fawcett | Balzer + Bray
Half Moon Summer By Elaine Vickers | Peachtree
Hamra and the Jungle of Memories By Hanna Alkaf | HarperCollins
Lasagna Means I Love You By Kate O’Shaughnessy | Knopf Books for Young Readers
The Lost Library By Rebecca Stead and Wendy Mass Feiwel & Friends
The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine By Katherine Marsh | Roaring Brook
Mexikid By Pedro Martin | Dial Books
The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity By Nicholas Day | Random House
No Matter the Distance By Cindy Baldwin | Quill Tree Books
Not an Easy Win By Chrystal D. Giles | Random House
The Remarkable Rescue at Milkweed Meadow By Elaine Dimopoulos |Charlesbridge
Saving Sunshine By Saadia Faruqi | First Second
Simon Sort of Says By Erin Bow | Disney Hyperion
The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels By Beth Lincoln | Dutton Books for Young Readers
Two Tribes By Emily Bowen Cohen | Heartdrum
What Happened to Rachel Riley? By Claire Swinarski | Quill Tree Books
The Windeby Puzzle: History and Story By Lois Lowry | Clarion Books
You Are Here: Connecting Flights By Ellen Oh | Allida
The Green Mountain Book Award (GMBA), initiated in 2005, is a reader's choice award for Vermont students in grades 9 - 12. The program is intended to encourage high schoolers to become enthusiastic and discriminating readers. It is recommended that students read at least three of the year's 15 nominated titles before voting in the spring.
2024-2025 GMBA Winner: Will be announced soon!
2025-2026 Nominees (Titles we own are linked to our catalog.)
Not Like Other Girls by Meredith Adamo
Dungeons and Drama by Kristy Boyce
To the Bone by Alena Bruzas
Aisle Nine by Ian X. Cho
The Wilderness of Girls by Madeline Claire Franklin
Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky by Josh Galarza
Ghost Roast by Shawnelle Gibbs & Shawneé Gibbs
A Deathly Compendium of Poisonous Plants: Wicked Weeds and Sinister Seeds by Rebecca E Hirsch
The Maid and the Crocodile by Jordan Ifueko
Shift Happens: The History of Labor in the United States by J. Albert Mann
The Deep Dark by Molly Knox Ostertag
What’s Eating Jackie Oh by Patricia Park
Darkly by Marisha Pessl
Night Owls by A.R. Vishny
Compound Fracture by Andrew J. White