The Teen Buckeye Book Award program is designed to encourage students in Ohio to read literature critically, to promote teacher and librarian involvement in young adult literature programs, and to commend authors of such literature. The Teen Buckeye Book Award category was added to the existing Buckeye Children's Book Award in 2003.

History

The Buckeye Children's Book Award program was established in 1981 through a collaborative effort of the Ohio Council International Reading Association, The Ohio Educational Library Media Association, The Ohio Council of Teachers of English and Language Arts, The Ohio Library Council and the State Library of Ohio.

Teachers and librarians serve on the Buckeye
Children's Book Award Council. Current sponsoring
agencies are the Ohio Council International Reading
Association (OCIRA), the Ohio Council of Teachers of
English Language Arts (OCTELA), the Ohio Educational
Library Media Association (OELMA), the Ohio Library
Council (OLC), and the Kent State University School of
Library and Information Science. The Council meets
twice a year; its primary job is to prepare the master
voting list and post it on the website after
nominations are in, and then tabulate and announce the
results. The Council also promotes the award, and
maintains the BCBA and TBBA websites. The BCBA
archives are kept in the Reinberger Children¢s Library
Center at Kent State University School of Library and
Information Science.