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From penguins to trucks, this month's column includes apps for a range of ages and interests featuring stunning photos, colorful artwork, amusing interactivity, and delightful animations.

Robert Downey Jr. reprises his role as the arrogant, irreverent, and ever likable Tony Stark, ingenious industrialist and high-tech super hero in Iron Man 3 (PG-13), which arrives in theaters on May 3, 2013, in traditional, 3-D, and IMAX 3D formats .Beef up your selection of tales about the Golden Avenger with offerings sure to appeal to teen movie—and comics—fans.

Anythink's dynamic director explores how children's services librarians will shape the future of libraries, libraries as places of discovery and experience, and the shift toward participatory librarianship.

Frankly, our password sheet has always been a royal pain. I’ve long been in search of an authentication solution–a relatively barrier-free strategy for out-of-school database access. For Mackin customers, MackinVia creates a single hub for e-books and database content–a one-user ID and password to your database collection (and your MackinVia ebooks) accessible from any internet-connected [...]

Philippe Coudray’s Benjamin Bear in Bright Ideas! Is laugh-out-loud funny.

The vast majority of parents with children younger than 18 feel libraries are very important for their kids, leading to higher-than-average use of a wide range of library services, a new national report from the Pew Research Center shows.

Burn Note gives users the feeling that they can talk to anyone about anything because each text conversation “self-destructs,” much like Snapchat (the real-time picture chatting application) does with images.

Emily Murdoch explores kidnapping, selective mutism, and drug abuse in her debut novel 'If You Find Me'. Which group will get school funding, cheerleading or the robotics club? In Prudence Shen’s 'Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong' the two cliques take the fight to the school election. If you never thought the Burning Man Festival would show up in teen fiction, think again—a local boy and a gypsy girl connect there in Elana K. Arnold's 'Burning'. Does R.L. Stine still have his horror chops? Read our reviewer's take on 'A Midsummer's Night Scream', and decide for yourself.

"The boys" still have their stuff on New Kids on the Block’s '10', the follow-up to their 2008 'Greatest Hits' reunion album, while OneRepublic has continued to add polish and range on their highly collaborative new album, 'Native'.