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With engaging design, impeccable research, and actionable suggestions for making an impact, these four middle grade & YA titles discuss what strides are being made by scientists, activists, and young people who are fighting to save the planet they’ve inherited.

These recent audiobooks offer irrefutable proof and auspicious validation that our youth are our most promising changemakers today, tomorrow, and beyond.

Travis Jonker raises up the best titles for reading aloud. “Some will be obvious and popular. Others lesser known. All will be story time gold.”

These three picture books capture the hardship and joys that Black people have experienced in the United States, with nuance and sensitivity to a young audience.  

Here are a few middle grade and YA titles to pass along to young readers interested in time loops. If they love them, they can read them over and over.

This series update brings with it a batch of new mysteries, new faces (some friendly and some less so), and new linguistic tools to help transitioning readers thrive through the chapter book format.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27 marks the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945. Share these titles with young readers to commemorate those who perished and to ensure that the horrors of the Holocaust are not forgotten.

Readers welcomed our coverage of the youth media awards, a new ambassador and, yes, ChatGPT.

Including fiction, nonfiction, and memoir, these titles cover topics from the making of the atomic bomb to the history of video games.