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Presenting the average book prices for 2021-2022-to-date, produced annually by SLJ in partnership with Follett and Baker & Taylor. 

Read the letter from Oksana Brui, the president of the Ukrainian Library Association, to the world's library community.

A recent CBS News/YouGov poll showed Americans do not support removing books about race from schools and believe that students should be taught the history of race and racism in the United States.

You know things are bad when LeVar Burton can’t get through a read-aloud. The actor and beloved “Reading Rainbow” host dropped by The Daily Show With Trevor Noah with a serious message on censorship.

A look at censorship attempts across the country includes book complaints in Florida, Kansas, and North Carolina, and book-targeting legislation in Indiana, Tennessee, and Georgia. 

The Winter Olympics is underway in Beijing, and figure skaters from around the world are dazzling with innovative, exceptional programs. Here are five titles to hand to young readers who are avidly watching every jump, spin, and twizzle.

The National Coalition Against Censorship creates a Book Challenge Crisis Hotline and Youth Censorship Database and Map in response to the rising censorship attempts across the county; We Need Diverse Books offers new educator grants; Cook Prize nominees announced; and more news. 

Books by Matt de la Peña and John Lewis are among the honored titles in the 2022 In the Margins Book Awards.

Cue the applause! SLJ is teaming up with award-winning author and historian Steve Sheinkin and school librarian Stacey Rattner to stream their fun, fact-filled game show. First up: Andrea Davis Pinkney vs. a group of middle schoolers on She Persisted: Harriet Tubman, by Pinkney and Chelsea Clinton.