YALSA's Award for Excellence in Nonfiction honors the best nonfiction book published for young adults
Houses with a Story Wins the 2024 Mildred L. Batchelder Award
The Mildred L. Batchelder Award is given to an American publisher for a children’s book originating in a country other than the United States and translated into English.
Books for the Year of the Dragon
According to the Chinese Horoscope, any babies born between February 5th, 2024 and February 4th, 2025 will have arrived during the Year of the Dragon.
2023 Libby Book Award Finalists
The folks behind Libby, one of the apps Eisenhower card holders can use to borrow ebooks and audiobooks, have announced the finalists for the first ever Libby Book Awards!
2024 Alex Award Winners
The Alex Awards are given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18.
2024 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
The Asian/Pacific American Award promotes Asian/Pacific American culture and heritage and is awarded based on literary and artistic merit.
2024 Schneider Family Book Award
The Schneider Family Book Awards honor authors or illustrators for books that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.
2024 Stonewall Book Award Winners
The Stonewall Book Awards are given annually to English-language children’s and young adult books of exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience.
2024 Odyssey Award
The Odyssey Award is given annually to the producer of the best audiobook produced for children and/or young adults, available in English in the United States.
2024 Coretta Scott King Book Awards
Designed to commemorate the life and works of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and to honor Mrs. Coretta Scott King for her courage and determination to continue the work for peace, the Coretta Scott King Book Awards annually recognize outstanding books for young adults and children by African American authors and illustrators that reflect the African American experience.
The Collectors: Stories Wins 2024 Printz Award
Every year, the Michael L. Printz Award honors the best book written for teens, based on its literary merit. The 2024 Michael L. Printz Award was given to The Collectors: Stories, edited by A.S. King. The award, first given in 2000, is named for the late Michael L. Printz, a Topeka, Kansas, school librarian known for discovering and promoting quality books for young adults.
Winter Reading 2024
January 01 – February 29, 202.
It's the chilliest time of year! Grab your coziest blanket, your fuzziest socks, and warm up with a good book with our Winter Reading Challenge!
LitWorks Author Chat & Pizza Party
February 21, 2024, 5:30 PM.
After a full day of fun at Ridgewood, four amazing Young Adult authors are heading over to Eisenhower! Drop in to meet Mark Crilley, Kit Frick, Kimberly L. Jones, and Adi Alsaid. Buy copies of their books, get them autographed, and enjoy some delicious pizza. For grades 7 through adult.
A Conversation with Jerry Craft: From Mama’s Boyz to New Kid and Beyond
Tuesday, February 06, 2024, 7:00 PM.
Learn about life, art, and telling your story with bestselling author, illustrator and syndicated cartoonist, Jerry Craft. Join us for a conversation about his works and journey to success, including a drawing demo that will be fun for the whole family!
Mattie and the Machine by Lynn Ng Quezon Wins 2023 Grateful American Book Prize
Mattie and the Machine, the debut novel by Lynn Ng Quezon, has been selected to receive the 2023 Grateful American Book Prize.
Speculating our A.I. Future with Cory Doctorow, Ken Liu, and Martha Wells
Thursday, January 11, 2024, 7:00 PM.
Join us for a panel discussion featuring three best selling science fiction writers, Cory Doctorow, Ken Liu, and Martha Wells. They will discuss the promise, perils, and possible impacts that A.I. will have on our future, as well as A.I. in contemporary and future science fiction writing.
Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree
In the prequel to last year's hit cozy fantasy, Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree takes us back to one of Viv, the mercenary orc's early "adventures".
Scary Winter Film: The Nightmare Before Christmas
Saturday, December 16, 2:00 PM, 2023.
Add more chills to the coldest months of the year with our series of scary movies this winter.
Billboard’s Hot 100 of 1973: Rocky Mountain High
A lot of great music topped the charts during 1973, our founding year. Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Eisenhower Public Library every other Sunday with selections from Billboard Magazine's Hot 100 Singles.
2023 Hugo Award Winners
The Hugo Award is an annual literary award administered by the World Science Fiction Society for the year's best science fiction or fantasy works. It is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories.
2023 Kirkus Prize Winners
Kirkus Reviews has announced the three winners of their ninth annual Kirkus Prize in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Young Readers’ Literature. The winners were chosen from the 10,794 books that were reviewed by Kirkus in the last year.
Billboard’s Hot 100 of 1973: You’re So Vain
A lot of great music topped the charts during 1973, our founding year. Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Eisenhower Public Library every other Sunday with selections from Billboard Magazine's Hot 100 Singles.
Maya-Camille Broussard on Baking with Love
Wednesday, November 08, 2023, 7:00 PM.
Just in time for Thanksgiving, join Maya Camille Broussard, star of Netflix’s Bake Squad, and owner of Chicago-based bakery, Justice of the Pies, for a demo from her cookbook of the same name.
Movie in the Parking Lot: Beetlejuice
Saturday, October 28, 2023, 6:15 PM.
Motor into the nostalgic days of the outdoor theater as our parking lot is transformed for an in-car screening of Beetlejuice.