Teens

green mountain book award (GMBA)

The Green Mountain Book Award (GMBA), initiated in 2005, is a reader's choice award for Vermont students in grades 9-12 created to honor excellence in young adult literature. The program is intended to encourage high schoolers to become enthusiastic and discriminating readers. Readers vote for their favorite nominee every spring.

2025-2026 GMBA Nominees

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resources

Health & Wellness

• Alateen
  • Support for those affected by someone else's drinking.
• Nemours(R) KidsHealth(R): All About Puberty
• National Eating Disorder Association (NEDA)
• Anorexia Nervosa & Related Eating Disorders (AnRed)
  • "A website dedicated to making it easier for you to learn about eating disorders and how to recover from them" (from the site)
• Columbia Health's Go Ask Alice
  • Health Q&A.
• American Sexual Health Association (ASHA)'s I Wanna Know!
  • Independent, unbiased sexual health information.
• It Gets Better
  • Encouragement, solidarity, inspiration, and more.
• Suicide…Read this First
• Teen Central
  • Teen help for teen problems.
• Teenline
  • An anonymous, nonjudgmental teen-to-teen hotline, supervised by mental health professionals, with community outreach services.

See also the Health & Safety page.​

​Reading & Writing

• Guys Read
• Letters About Literature
• Poetry 180
• Teen Ink
• Write Girl​
• Young Writers’ Project

Driving

• Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles (VT DMV): Driver Education​

• Driving Test.org: Free Vermont DMV Permit Practice Test

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​[Information & Links Pending.]

• https://southburlingtonlibrary.org/teen-resources
• https://fletcherfree.org/virtual-boredom-busters
• Girls Who Code at Home
• NaNoWriMo Young Writers