News & Features

To honor Black History Month, SLJ is curating lists of fiction and nonfiction book pairings focusing on pivotal moments in Black history in the United States. These 10 books are excellent resources for understanding the experiences of those who had to uproot their families during The Great Migration.

Elements of collaboration, relationship building, and creativity in the game world help shore up those strengths in the real world, including for kids whose SEL skills were dulled by pandemic-induced social isolation.

UK school librarian and author Lucas Maxwell describes why running Dungeons & Dragons clubs has positively impacted his life and his students'. 

African Town wins the 2023 Scott O'Dell Award; SCBWI announces grant winners; WNDB is taking grant applications; and more in this edition of News Bites.

Hand these titles to YA readers taken with Tim Burton's twist on the classic Addams Family franchise.

The award is given annually to outstanding fiction and literary nonfiction titles for ages two to eighteen that inspire a love of math.

Big events or public spaces with a lot of people can bring up feelings of anxiety in adults; for children encountering them for the first time, these feelings may be heightened. Here are some titles to share with parents and caregivers that might help.

The titles are recognized for being of high interest to youth who are BIPOC, from street culture, in restrictive custody, and/or reluctant readers.

Climate change and environmental activism are ­exceedingly relevant topics for young readers today, and these two titles have different approaches to similar issues.