School librarian Amanda Jones won the next step in her defamation suit, but lost an unrelated censorship battle when her local library voted to move This One Summer to the adult section after a meeting where she spoke out against the move. Plus, more in censorship news.

Kansas elementary school librarian Amanda McCoy teaches a research unit using Olympic sports.

This month's roundup includes audiobook adaptations of Katherine Rundell's The Poisoned King and Sophie Blackall's Hello Lighthouse.

From sports fiction to dark academia, these novels written for striving readers will appeal to teens with a variety of interests.

The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze by Derrick Barnes and Champion by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Raymond Obstfeld, and Ed Laroche are this year's winners.

This month’s round-up features some big adventures, open-world racing, and a couple of sequels that are perfect for a night alone or with a friend.

With the documentary airing on PBS on Monday, February 9, director and producer Kim Snyder spoke with SLJ about the documentary, the audience response, and her hope it makes a bigger impact on the anti-censorship movement.

These eight picture books, including Jonah Winter's The Burning of the Books and Gideon Sterer's The Dream, prove the power of the format, with or without words.

Europa by James Ponti (S. & S./Aladdin) leads holds this week. Barnes and Noble Reads recommends the best audiobooks of February 2026, including two children’s titles. People exclusively reveals the cover of Jasmine Guillroy’s debut YA novel It’s Only Dancing (Scholastic).