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In this Boston Globe-Horn Book award-winning picturebook, a young girl celebrates one of the most simple, yet powerful, facets of childhood—creativity.
Author Suzanne Collins will bring readers back to Panem, 64 years before The Hunger Games began.
It’s time for another roundup for new and forthcoming YA (and sometimes not YA) books featuring LGBTQIA+ characters. Get ready to do some collection development!
Today as part of our ongoing discussion of Teen Services 101, we're talking about all the ways you can tie books directly into teen programming.
Funny Nonfiction isn't particularly common, but it most certainly exists. But how do you go about it? Let's look at some of the funnier books of 2019 and see how they tackled the challenge.
When the Ground Is Hard is the tale of an unlikely friendship that blossoms between the societal slabs of systemic racism, colorism, and classism in an Apartheid-era Christian boarding school in Swaziland. Award-winning crime fiction writer Malla Nunn talked with SLJ about the personal experiences that shaped this tightly woven, thoughtful, and timely YA adventure story.
As the first picture book on Stonewall, timed for the 50th anniversary, Stonewall: A Building. An Uprising. A Revolution provides teachers, librarians, parents, and children with an entry point into the history of the Gay Rights Movement, to be explored in the context of other books, those written and yet-to-be-written, and digital texts as well.
Teen programming in public libraries. What works? What doesn't? Today Karen Jensen discusses the results of an informal survey and her own experiences regarding successful teen programming in public libraries.
TRIGGER WARNING: THIS POST TALKS ABOUT SEXUAL ABUSE AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SUICIDE AND LOSS Several Sundays ago, a teenage boy died in the house next door to me. I did not know him personally, but I experienced his death the way I have experienced far too much teenage death – through the eyes of […]
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