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We Need Diverse Books will launch a multi-pronged effort to fight book banning attempts that are disproportionately impacting diverse books and support educators, students, and authors.

Attention publishers: The Black Caucus of the American Library Association, Inc. is open to book submissions for the current cycle of its Children & Young Adult Literary Awards.

In this guest essay, debut author Susan Azim Boyer speaks with five fellow debut authors about why they write kid lit and how it can act as a powerful force against harmful narratives and stereotypes.

Multiracial Americans are the fastest-growing demographic in the United States, and publishing is thankfully reflecting more multiracial representation: here are 20 audiobooks, all published in 2022, culled from a list more than double the size. Listen in.

Gathered from northernmost Canada to the Mayan of Central America, the following compilations, fiction and nonfiction, offer middle schoolers an inside look into some Indigenous peoples and their rich and varied cultures.