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Watch! Reynolds, the award-winning author and National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, tests his knowledge of his own book against a middle schooler's in this episode of Author-Fan Face-Off.

Cartoonist Lincoln Peirce’s beloved Big Nate comic strip makes the jump to television in the new Nickelodeon animated series now available on the Paramount+ streaming service. Here’s our review.

In these works, characters with disabilities are presented as well-rounded, complex personalities.

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.

A look at censorship attempts across the country includes book complaints in Florida, Kansas, and North Carolina, and book-targeting legislation in Indiana, Tennessee, and Georgia. 

The National Coalition Against Censorship creates a Book Challenge Crisis Hotline and Youth Censorship Database and Map in response to the rising censorship attempts across the county; We Need Diverse Books offers new educator grants; Cook Prize nominees announced; and more news. 

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.

Get ready for Women's History Month with this playlist spotlighting trailblazers including Shirley Chisholm, Frida Kahlo, Ángela Peralta, and others. For ages five and up.

Hand these school capers to elementary and middle school kids who are excited about the show based on the Lincoln Peirce series.