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Celebrate Black History Month with Afro-Latinx Kid Lit
SLJ reviews manager Shelley Diaz highlights children’s and YA books with Afro-Latinx roots.
Prejudice, Gun Violence, and Suicide: Barry Lyga Tackles It All in “Bang”
Barry Lyga talks about what inspired his hard-hitting novel Bang, an SLJ February 2017 Popular Pick.
Download SLJ’s 2017 Battle of the Kids’ Books Brackets
Need a fun, colorful way to keep track of which book advances to the next round in SLJ’s Battle of the Kids’ Books? Download our handy 11 x 17 PDF of the brackets.
Interview: Renée Watson on YA Novel “Piecing Me Together”
SLJ chats with Renée Watson about her stirring YA novel Piecing Me Together .
In the Margins Book Committee Announces Winners for 2017
Now in its fourth year, the In the Margins selection committee has released its full list of 2017 winners. The group identifies quality and meaningful resources for librarians and library workers who work with teens in lockdown, foster care, homeless shelters, and other nontraditional venues in the margins.
A Wish After Midnight
Gr 8 Up—A speculative fiction series about a teen of Panamanian descent who time travels to Civil War—era Brooklyn with her love interest Judah...
Draw!
PreS-Gr 3—Based on the Afro-Puerto Rican artist's childhood, beloved and award-winning illustrator Colón's wordless work, created with watercolor and colored pencils, depicts a sickly boy who uses his creativity to escape the confines of his bed...
Mama's Girl
Growing up in the 1970s in a home plagued by violence, divorce, and double standards, the award-winning author (who wrote this memoir in her 20s) struggled to exceed low expectations and a fraught relationship with her mother...
Grandma's Records/Los discos de mi abuela
Gr 1–3—Each year, a boy spends the summer with his grandmother in her apartment in Spanish Harlem listening to her records...
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