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New Zealand Bans YA Title "Into the River"; Imposes Fine for Selling, Sharing Book
Ted Dawe's award-winning YA novel Into the River, about a Maori boy at a boarding school, is the first book to be banned in New Zealand in 22 years.
Charleston Library Hands Out "Some Girls Are" After School Bans Book
The Charleston Public Library in South Carolina gave 1,000 copies of Courtney Summers's Some Girls Are to teens after a high school removed the book from its summer reading list.
Authors Talk About the Teen Transgender Experience | SummerTeen 2015
Authors Susan Kuklin, Robin Talley, and Alex Gino spoke about transgender representation in books and the importance of making LGBTQ titles visible.
Putting LGBTQ Books into Kids’ Hands
School librarian Susan Polos believes that reading books about different kinds of families enables children to better understand others. So she co-founded "Shared Stories Open Minds," an initiative in which children read and discuss LGBTQ-themed stories.
Philadelphia Launches $30 Million Literacy Push
The School District of Philadelphia has launched a $30 million early literacy initiative intended to make sure that by 2020, all students are reading on grade level when they reach fourth grade.
Kansas Suffers a School Librarian Slide
A proposed revision to a Kansas law may help protect school librarians' jobs, but it will be hard to reverse the slow drain of certified school librarian positions in the state during the past decade.
NBA’s Pistons Give Detroit High School Library a Makeover
A Detroit high school has scored a slam dunk—a renovation of its school library—by winning the Detroit Pistons’ “Reading Room Makeover” for 2015–16. More than 30 Michigan schools from 24 cities applied for the makeover, which supplies new carpeting, paint, and furniture.
October 3 Picture Book Summit Offers Workshop for Aspiring Authors
Do you have a children’s story itching to be told, but you're not sure how to begin? You might consider the Picture Book Summit, a live, online workshop on October 3.
School Librarians Want More Tech—and Bandwidth | SLJ 2015 Tech Survey
IPads, maker spaces, 3-D printers, and coding skills top the tech wish lists for 1,259 school librarians across the country, according to School Library Journal’s 2015 Technology Survey.
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