Books & Media

YA author Erik J. Brown speaks with SLJ about writing across genres, the value of found family, and the safety in thrillers.

School librarian Tom Bober created a unit of picture book read-alouds and primary sources for the country’s 250th birthday.

The Moon Without Stars by Chanel Miller leads holds this week. The Amazing Generation by Jonathan Haidt and Catherine Price, illustrated by Cynthia Yuan Cheng, enters the NYT Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover Best Seller list at No. 1. Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine announces Beth Is Dead as the inaugural pick for its new Sunnie Reads Book Club, which is run “by and for Gen-Z readers.”