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Active nonfiction books, a category of titles that help kids make and do things, are inspirational and interactive, and can aid with students' writing and cross-curricular learning.

The platform is driving up circulation in school libraries as students seek hot titles. And BookTok fans who’d never set foot in the library before are doing just that.

Share these 18 titles with young readers to help them welcome Spring.

Meet Collaboration Awards finalists Hillary Marshall and Brenda Hitchins of Washougal (WA) High School.

SLJ Collaboration Awards finalists Emma Romero and Andre von Twistern connect students with nature at Desert Wind School, El Paso, TX.

Scheller and Ramirez engage students while addressing the word gap at Eiland Elementary School in Houston, TX, and are the first recipients of the LIbrarian/Teacher Collaboration Award, sponsored by TLC.

In the main, awards season will celebrate honored books and their creators. Yet such a high-profile occasion presents a unique opportunity to celebrate and honor, too, the right of kids and teens to read and access content.

The Front Desk author tweeted a call to action to her colleagues, as she tries to "motivate and mobilize" people to fight coordinated efforts to remove books from schools and libraries.