Booklists

Seek-and-finds, stories about escape challenges, and other engaging titles. 

These books on topics ranging from using AI successfully to navigating book challenges are a good place for librarians to start as they look toward another year of positively influencing young readers.

From ready reference to encyclopedias, these titles will spark curiosity in baseball, ancient times, and dragons, while also providing research resources on Black women's history and space travel.

2024 came to a close with these outstanding selections, which include several from our new Fiction Series Made Simple supplement. 

Are your young readers sad that the holiday season is over? Point them to these titles, featuring holidays celebrated throughout the year around the world.

Booklists are perennially popular content on SLJ. The most viewed ones, however, aren’t all from 2024 or featuring titles from current publishing seasons. See what topics drew reader interest this past year. 

Keeping engaging series fiction in the hands of young patrons as they build habits and discover a love of reading is a priority. Fiction Series Made Simple is designed to help librarians maintain fresh and fun collections.

A careful examination of decodable sets designed to support burgeoning readers and their grown-ups on the path toward reading fluency.

Picture book series that help readers consider their place in the world.