Children's Books
Browse these reading lists for your little ones based on genres like adventure and mysteries.
Tween Books
Browse these reading lists for your older children based on genres like fantasy and graphic novels.
cloudLibrary
Download e-books and e-audiobooks on the cloudLibrary app. Each Library card can download up to 5 items at a time on the cloudLibrary app. Kids must have a Child Unrestricted Card to access cloudLibrary. Call 318-327-1490 or email help@oplib.org for information about updating your child's card.
Louisiana Young Readers Choice (LYRC)
The purpose of the program is to foster a love of reading in the children of Louisiana by motivating them to participate in the recognition of outstanding books.
Newbery Award Titles
The Newbery Medal is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
Caldecott Award Titles
The Caldecott Medal is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.
Coretta Scott King Award titles
The Coretta Scott King Book Awards are given annually to outstanding African American authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults that demonstrate an appreciation of African American culture and universal human values.
Mildred L. Batchelder Award
This award, established in Mildred L. Batchelder's honor in 1966, is a citation awarded to an American publisher for a children's book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country, and subsequently translated into English and published in the United States.
Pura Belpré Award
This award is named after Pura Belpré, the first Latina librarian at the New York Public Library. The Pura Belpré Award, established in 1996, is presented annually to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.