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The partnership benefits the New Jersey students, who are learning accessible design and to create with empathy and imagination, as well as the blind and visually-impaired kids, who not only get to play the games but have a voice in the process.

YA newcomers talk about the fictional crushes, heartbreaks, soaring romances, and legendary friendships that have kept them company creatively. 

A study of high school curricula across the country shows that civics education is not widely prioritized nor are there guidelines for the specific content to be taught within the subject.

A.S. King never thought this "uncomfortable" book could find a consensus in committee. The award "means the world," she says.

Mariko Tamaki's Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me and Padma Venkatraman's The Bridge Home earned The Walter for teens and younger readers, respectively.

In advance of the Printz Award announcement on January 27, take a look at the expert analysis and predictions for YA's top prize in SLJ's Pondering Printz columns.

To help the next generation learn the "fundamental life skill" of news literacy, the organizations will educate people of all ages on how to identify misinformation and the importance of a free press.

Tonya Bolden's newest historical novel, Saving Savannah, follows an affluent African American teenager as she navigates the tumultuous summer of 1919 and discovers the need for activism and the ways in which she can make a difference. Bolden talks to SLJ about doing research, connecting the past to the present, and taking inspiration from Toni Morrison.

In our last Pondering Printz column before this year's announcement, Angela Carstensen cautions that the award is not a popularity contest.