Each year, NCSS seeks approximately five new members to serve on our Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People Book Committee. The book committee consists of 15 members who review, evaluate, and select social studies trade books for our annual bibliography: "Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People."

The "Notables" contain 100-200 titles selected from as many as 900 books submitted by publishers each year. The list is published annually in the May/June issue of Social Education. See previous Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People Lists.

Requirements

• Applicants must be a teacher, or social studies/literature specialist, librarian/media specialist in any educational setting—kindergarten through university level.
• Applicants must be a current member of NCSS.
• Applicants must be available to serve for a three-year term.
• Applicants must be able to read approximately 180 books between July and December. (Committee members may keep the books they receive!)
• Applicants must be available to attend a one-day virtual/online selection meeting each January.
• Committee members are each expected to write one-fifteenth of the annotations of the selected titles each year.