These recent audiobooks offer irrefutable proof and auspicious validation that our youth are our most promising changemakers today, tomorrow, and beyond.

The SLJ reviews editors rounded up our reviews of the books lauded at the 2023 Youth Media Awards.

Tahir's novel, which she once thought was "too niche" and "too weird" to be published, earned the Printz Award on Monday. 

The Youth Media Awards ceremony returned in person as children's literature celebrated its biggest day, honoring the best titles of the year.

In this story of a little dog stressed out by the sights, sounds, and feelings of the city on a summer day, Salati wanted to share a universal experience of feeling overwhelmed that would resonate with kids. 

The author says her novel loosely based on the Maroon communities of escaped formerly enslaved people will give young readers a connection across cultures and experiences and help restart the difficult conversation around slavery. 

Here is the complete list of the winners at the 2023 Youth Media Awards.

It's the fifth year the Sydney Taylor Book Awards will be announced at the Youth Media Awards, an inclusion that has vaulted books with Jewish content into a broader spotlight.

Book bans are often argued to be an infringement of First Amendment rights, but are they also a violation of civil rights? When it comes to the case of Granbury (TX) ISD, the ACLU of Texas says yes. The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is looking into it.