Booklists

These books bring history to life with dramatic personal stories, including vignettes of 1960s Iraq and a tour of fire-devastated California in 2017. 

Celebrate poetry with these 16 middle grade and YA #OwnVoices titles.

A one-stop Earth Day resource list to help with programming and lesson plan needs.

Twenty-eight titles to celebrate in April and throughout the year.

Many authors' jobs in school, public, and academic libraries have informed their writing for teens.

While experts agree that getting governments to legislate the reduction of waste in all forms is the most important step we can take at this moment in time, it’s never too early to educate our students about what needs to be done globally and locally, and what they as individual citizens can do.

As kids reach their tween and teen years, "fitting in" suddenly becomes more important. These fiction titles, both serious and light, and across genres and formats, explore the topic.

From delightful picture books to probing YA novels, these titles represent the cream of the crop reviewed in SLJ's April issue.

While no one book list can adequately explore all the variations in culture and traditions embodied within the broad category of the “Asian/Pacific American Experience,” readers who identify as Asian American and/or Pacific American—especially as first-generation Americans—will find reflections of their own stories in these novels.