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.
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.
2022-2023 Red Clover Winner: I Eat Poop.: A Dung Beetle Story by Mark Pett
2023-2024 Nominees:
Abdul's Story
by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow, illustrated by Tiffany Rose
Salaam Reads/Simon & Schuster | 2022
Berry Song
by Michaela Goade
Little, Brown and Company | 2022
Bobcat Prowling
by Maria Gianferrari, illustrated by Bagram lbatoulline
Roaring Brook Press | 2022
Dragon Bones: The Fantastic Fossil Discoveries of Mary Anning
by Sarah Glenn Marsh, illustrated by Maris Wicks
Roaring Brook Press | 2022
Listen: How Evelyn Glennie, a Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion
by Shannon Stocker, illustrated by Devon Holzwarth
Dial Books for Young Readers | 2022
Little Good Wolf
by Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel, illustrated by Susan Stevens
Crummel
Clarion Books/HarperCollins | 2022
Luli and the Language of Tea
by Andrea Wang, illustrated by Hyewon Yum
Neal Porter Books/Holiday House | 2022
Marshmallow Clouds: Two Poets at Play Among Figures of Speech
by Ted Kooser and Connie Wanek, illustrated by Richard Jones
Candlewick Press | 2022
Me and the Boss: A Story About Mending and Love
by Michelle Edwards, illustrated by April Harrison
Anne Schwartz Books | 2022
The Pet Potato
by Josh Lacey, illustrated by Momoko Abe
Roaring Brook Press | 2022
2023-2024 Nominees
libraries.vermont.gov
Vermont’s K-4
Children’s-Choice
Picture Book Award
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.
2022-2023 Golden Dome Book Award Winner: Alone! by Megan E. Freeman
2023-24 Nominees:
Alexander, Kwame. The Door of No Return. Grades 7+
Applegate, Katherine. Odder. Grades 4+
Beil, Michael. The Swallowtail Legacy: Wreck at Ada’s Reef. Grades 5+
Brown, Waka T. Dream, Annie, Dream. Grades 5+
Christmas, Johnnie. Swim Team. Grades 4+
Cisneros, Ernesto. Falling Short. Grades 5+
De Leon, Aya. Undercover Latina. Grades 6+
Glaser, Karina Yan. A Duet for Home. Grades 5+
Griffith, Evan. Manatee Summer. Grades 4+
Harrington, C.C. Wildoak. Grades 5+
King, A.S. Attack of the Black Rectangles. Grades 5+
Lukoff, Kyle. Different Kinds of Fruit. Grades 5+
McDunn, Gillian. Honestly Elliott. Grades 4+
Partridge, Elizabeth. Seen and Unseen. Grades 5+
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.
2022-2023 GMBA Winners in a Three-Way Tie!: The Mary Shelley Club by Goldy Moldavsky; Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao; Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
2022-2023 Nominees (Titles we own are linked to our catalog.)
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