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VOYA Booklists

VOYA features at least one annotated booklist for teen readers in every issue—sometimes more. Any booklist may be reproduced without permission as long as VOYA is cited as the source.

Every February Issue

• Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers. Begun in 2000, high-quality fiction for eleven- to thirteen-year-old readers is chosen annually by a committee of librarians and teachers with student input.
  
  

Every April Issue

• VOYA's Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. Since 1984, the best titles are nominated annually by VOYA reviewers and compiled by VOYA editors.
  
  
• Pure Poetry: VOYA's Poetry Picks. The best collections nominated by VOYA reviewers and compiled by VOYA editors.

Every June Issue

• Amazing, Astounding, and Absolutely A+ Audiobooks. The top audiobooks reviewed annually in Audiobooks It Is! column.
  
  
• The Perfect Tens: The Top Twenty Books Reviewed in Voice of Youth Advocates in the past year.
  
  
• Open for submissions on various topics.

Every August Issue

• VOYA's Nonfiction Honor List. Begun in 1996, this list is chosen annually by a committee of librarians and teachers. Honor list books target middle school students.

• Recent Noteworthy Books in Spanish by Isabel Schon, renowned expert on children's and young adult Spanish language literature.

Every October Issue

• Extending the Five-Foot Bookshelf. Professional Reading for Librarians Serving Young Adults. Indispensable professional titles are nominated annually by VOYA reviewers; the list is compiled by Mary K. Chelton.

Every December Issue

• Clueless? Adult Mysteries with Young Adult Appeal. Tempting adult mysteries for teens are recommended annually by mystery experts John Charles and Joanna Morrison.

World Religions Resource Lists for Teens

• Islam by Patty Campbell and Susan Cappetta (December 2005)
• Judaism by Diane P. Tuccillo (February 2006)
• Buddhism by Susan Rakow and Timothy Capehart (April 2006)
• Mainstream Protestant Christianity, Catholicism, and Orthodox Christianity by Erin Downey Howerton (June 2006)
• Evangelical Christianity by Jay Wise (August 2006)
• Spiritual Questioning by Kathleen Beck (October 2006)
• Wicca by Lorraine Squires (December 2006)
• Native American Religious Traditions by Jan Chapman (February 2007)
• Mormons by Jessica Johnson et al. (April 2007)
• Hinduism by Diane Colson (June 2007)
• From Bahá'í to Zororastrianism—Other Important World Faiths by Karen Sykeny (August 2007)

Topical Single Booklists

• Sex, Drug Deals, and Drama: More Books like "The Coldest Winter Ever" by Miranda Doyle (August 2005)
  
  
• Magazines for Teens, Part One: On and Off the Rack by Marsha Rakestraw (December 2007)
  
  
• Magazines for Teens, Part Two: On and Off the Rack by Marsha Rakestraw (February 2008)
  
  

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