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2026 Youth Media Awards

Save the date! The 2026 Youth Media Awards will be held on Monday, January 26 beginning at 10 a.m. CT. The announcement will take place at the Hilton Chicago hotel (720 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605). The event will be free and open to the public, but registration will be required for in-person attendance. The deadline for registration is Wednesday, January 21.

The announcement will also be live streamed at ala.unikron.com and on the ALA Facebook page. No registration is required to view the livestream. To see a list of all of the awards, visit the ALA Youth Media Awards page.

© 2026 American Library Association

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Man on the Moon

Man on the Moon
by Anastasia Suen (Author) and Benrei Huang (Illustrator)
@ Amazon | Bookshop | WorldCat

Booktalk: It was 1969 and no one had ever set foot on the moon. Some said it couldn’t be done. But astronauts Mike Collins, Buzz Aldrin, and Neil Armstrong were going to try . . . The true story of the first moon landing, when a man set foot on an unexplored world and showed us that the boundaries of our world were limitless.

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BONUS! Download activities for your classroom or library to use when Artemis II launches.

  • Click here to open the Beacon Library app.
  • Enter your contact info and the Beacon Library app will email you a download link.
  • Print the activities on 8.5×11″ paper in full-color or gray-scale (black ink only).
  • Clicking each underlined NASA on “Then and Now” PDF will take you to each multimedia site.
  • Need help folding the mini-comic? See the tutorial on my author visits page.

It’s #ThrowbackThursday!
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