News & Features

In SLJ's inaugural Stars Issue, we assembled all starred titles for the first half of the year in a handy edition available to subscribers. 

In challenging times, we could all use support. So the editors tapped some stellar individuals for insight and inspiration, featured in our back-to-school issue.

Starred titles closing out the year include the latest releases from Cinda Williams Chima and Kwame Alexander, and more.

This year, BPS will see 25 new libraries along with 30 new librarians, with funding to ensure an opening day collection of new, culturally sustaining books. 

A roundup of recent feedback.

Share these titles with the youngest readers to help them ring in the new year. 

With coverage ranging from first-person accounts to vital information and resources, SLJ covered censorship from all angles in 2022.

A.S. King received the 2022 Margaret A. Edwards Award for “significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature.” Karen Jensen, "Teen Librarian Toolbox" blogger, and her daughter, Riley, spoke to King for our June cover story.

Characters in these four middle grade novels fight unjust rules and buck the school system, like Matilda.