Tweens

These two titles center young Indigenous protagonists and integrate coming-of-age tropes with fantasy and folklore.

These moving middle grade novels center Puerto Rican girls navigating their relationships with their culture, their family, and themselves.

Share these books with your middle grade students during National Bullying Prevention Month in October and all year long to show them examples of tweens dealing with and standing up to bullying.

These magical stories for preschoolers to tweens will appeal to kids swept up in the movie coming to Disney+ on September 6. 

Never proven scientifically, one of the biggest draws to tarot and witchcraft practices is the romance of their ancient provenance and their ancestral, shared rituals and human wisdom.

The anniversary of women gaining the right to vote is a good time to revisit resources and offer titles that teach not only about the suffrage movement, but the women who continued the fight for equal pay, education, and more.

In an exclusive SLJ interview, New York Times bestselling author, Laini Taylor, and her partner, mixed media illustrator and cartoonist Jim Di Bartolo, discuss the inspiration for their vibrant, laugh-out-loud team-up, and their return to crafting graphic novels together—but this time, for a younger audience.

In this guest post, author Shannon Hale discusses adapting her graphic novel Best Friends as an audiobook, with a behind-the-scenes look at how she wrote the script and took part in the narration.

The Nation's Report Card shows scores on the reading and math assessments of 13-year-olds dropped four and seven points, respectively, compared to 2020.