Jonathan Hunt offers picks for this year's Printz Award—including nonfiction, graphic novels, and books for young teens—and reminds us that serving on award committees isn't for the faint of heart.

An escape room is an engaging and educational program for teens, even on a limited budget.

The Stanford History Education Group gave thousands of high school students "civic online reasoning" assessments to gauge their digital media literacy skills.

At the 2019 American Association of School Librarians National Conference, Ellen Oh, Adolph Brown, and  Jarrett Krosoczka spoke with emotion and humor while calling on librarians to lift up all children.

Nine superb titles made SLJ's list of must-have transitional chapter books. 

Eighteen exceptional informational works made SLJ's list of the best nonfiction for children and teens published in 2019. 

Thirteen luminous novels made SLJ's list of the best middle grade books published in 2019. 

Fourteen outstanding titles made SLJ's list of the best graphic novels for children and teens published in 2019. 

Twenty-one exemplary titles made SLJ's list of the best picture books published in 2019.