SLJ Staff

Longtime favorite authors dominated the lists of checkouts in the first half of June, according to Follett's Students' Choice data.

A PBS documentary, a picture book about his boyhood aspirations to become a preacher, and his own graphic memoir trilogy invite young readers into the life and battles of the late, beloved John Lewis.

ALA will share the prerecorded program with president Julius Jefferson, Jr., and Texas school librarians, including 2017 SLJ School Librarian of the Year Tamiko Brown.

Mariko Tamaki, Rosemary Valero-O'Connell, and Raina Telgemeier earned multiple awards at the annual comic industry awards. 

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Educators' unions and parents joined together to sue the state's governor and department of education commissioner over on-site learning at public schools, TikTok launches media literacy campaign, the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation releases new online resources, and LibraryPlus has new CEO, comics offering, and apps in this edition of News Bites.

The Reopening Archives, Libraries, and Museums (REALM) Project  released its second round of testing results. Researchers looked at how long virus stayed on five common library items, including board books.

The author of beloved science series died at age 75.

A new Miles Morales title, written by Justin A. Reynolds, will be the first in the line of original superheroes graphic novels, launching in Spring 2021.