Digital book displays help students and patrons find the perfect title.

Traditional education largely has not addressed race and racism. That will only change if all teachers adopt antracist teaching methods.

School Library Journal has garnered two Eddie Awards, one for a cover story addressing the state of publishing for tweens, the second a staff-wide effort to inform and serve readers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A frank Q&A with First Second publisher Mark Siegel on the desire to look beneath the surface and ask difficult questions, as well as his quest to build a better world through comics.

More than 1,000 librarians responded to School Library Journal's survey, offering insight into the profession during remote learning forced by the novel coronavirus pandemic. Here is the full report on our findings.

When it comes to a schedule for school from home, how does it compare to the traditional schedule and curriculum? It's a mix, according to School Library Journal's survey of  K-12 librarians, fielded from April 2 to April 12.

When it comes to getting materials returned to the library, most librarians don't appear all that concerned, found School Library Journal's survey. In fact, 48 percent haven't made a plan for that.

 

For educators, a lot has changed amid a global pandemic—and at the same time, much hasn’t. 
 

Lee & Low Books' Diversity Baseline Survey 2.0 shows the publishing industry has not become measurably more inclusive since 2015.

The discussions in the spring set of free, one-hour professional development programs will tackle serving striving readers, information inequity, and news literacy.

 

On the Diverse Books Survey page, users can access related content, newly updated, as well as our Diverse Books Survey report.

While in the minority, the SLJ Diverse Books Survey reveals some librarians are declining to purchase books with diverse characters to avoid a challenge.

These titles for middle and high school readers celebrate joy in the lives of Black teens and tweens. The characters in these stories laugh honestly, love fiercely, and exist wholly.

Chills and thrills for young listeners.

Check out the SLJ reviews of the books that made the longlist for the 2020 National Book Award for Young People's Literature.

Help smooth the path from in-person to online making.

History teacher Cathy Cluck wanted to make remote learning interesting and fun for her students, so she mapped out an American history road trip, hopped in her car, and taught from where history happened.

From crafting to meditating, these lists recommend several books on a common theme or subject with selections for a variety of ages and reading levels—making them perfect ways to inspire reading, talking, and playing together as a family. 

Books for kids who like these summer and fall 2020 shows and movies.

Unlock kids' creativity with episodes about origami, bookmaking, beavers, and more inspirations.

The play about the Salem witch trials presents a moral dilemma, but it's another canonical work centering the white, Christian, male perspective. Here are suggestions for discussion and alternate works.

A frank Q&A with First Second publisher Mark Siegel on the desire to look beneath the surface and ask difficult questions, as well as his quest to build a better world through comics.

A roundup of manga covering a range of sports, from soccer and basketball to ice skating and volleball. Most geared for grades 8 and up.

Check out our reviews of the books featured at the SLJ Summit 2020's graphic novel panel "I Guess This Is Growing Up: Coming-of-Age Stories in Graphic Novel Format."

Some of it’s memoir, and some is made up, but all of it makes for delightful summer reading.

Beetle and the Hollowbones author Aliza Layne fills SLJ in on the challenges of creating a character who doesn’t talk, how she balanced sweet and spooky elements, and her hopes for the graphic novel medium.

2020 is turning out to be a bumper year for cat stories of all kinds. Here’s a look at some of this year’s cat tales.

How are book committees coping in the face of entirely virtual book discussions? I speculate and speculate and speculate some more.

Librarian Stacey Rattner and author Steve Sheinkin bring you the game show we've all been waiting for. Now answering the ultimate question: Who knows their books better? Authors? Or fans?

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In this post, we share the questions we are grappling with and how we are beginning to come to some answers. We also invite you to share your questions or answers with us in the comments section so that we can tailor our posts this year to sharing books, resources, and teaching ideas that support what you and your students need.

#Fakenews is a growing epidemic. In an interview recorded for this year’s SLJTeen Live!, Peter Adams, the News Literacy Project’s senior vice president of education, said, “The belief that all information is somehow tactical—is out to manipulate us in some way, has an ulterior motive, is against us—is something we’re all vulnerable to.”  

This booklist for upper-elementary, middle, and high school students offers the tools to develop a critical eye and thoughtfully evaluate news sources.

A teen talks about the impact that assigned reading has on reading desire.

Wearing masks helps prevent the spread of Covid-19. Here are some ways that libraries can help normalize tweens and teens wearing face masks.

Employees with disabilities and chronic illnesses have long fought for basic accommodations now granted to millions of workers from home. Here's what else is needed.

The celebrated graphic novelist had to learn to love sports to tell a larger story of basketball dreams in Dragon Hoops.