Awards Received by the Second Chance Books Project

2007 Finalist Humanities Texas Award
Picture of Devo Carpenter with award in Austin Business Journal on February 1, 2008

2007 Young Adult Library Services Excellence in Programming award

2007 Dollar General Literacy Grant

2006 James Patterson PageTurner Award

Among the James Patterson PageTurner Award winners are libraries, schools, bookstores, and innovative individuals and organizations that go to extraordinary lengths to spread the joy of books and reading across the country.

2006 Texas Library Association Award

The TLA award is given each year in recognition of distinguished service to Texas librarianship over a number of years and also acknowledges creative leadership and service to TLA. The 2006 award recipient was Austin Public Library’s Youth Services program “Second Chance Books: Bringing Literature to Incarcerated Kids.”

2005 Hotho Literacy Award

The Hotho Literacy Award was established to recognize the Texas library that has worked the hardest during the year to encourage and support the joy and benefits of reading. This annual award of $1000 was presented to the Austin Public Library at the TLA Conference in April 2005.

2003 Tocker Foundation Grant

The Tocker Foundation was established to make library services accessible to individuals who, by reason of distance, residence, handicap, age, literacy level or other disadvantage, are unable to receive the benefits of public library services. In 2003, the Second Chance Book Project was awarded $500.