News & Features

The Writer Award winner is Anne Wynter for Nell Plants a Tree. Sarah Gonzales won the Illustrator Award for The Only Way to Make Bread.

The Black Caucus of the American Library Association, Inc. and School Library Journal announce the 2024 Children & Youth Literary Awards, which celebrate the diversity of the Black experience.

Downward dog, mindful breathing, and other practices enrich public library programming.

SLJ creative director Mark Tuchman remembers the intimidation, joy, and honor of working with the legendary Jules Feiffer on SLJ's 50th anniversary issue.

In Florida, governor Ron DeSantis is pushing for an adjustment to his law that created a mass of book challenges, as bills on both sides of the fight for intellectual freedom are debated in Oregon and Utah, while West Virginia and Georgia seek to strip librarians' legal protections.

In these novels, characters find connection and joy amid life-altering health issues.

A teacher fears students will select "unacceptable" library books.

Who runs the world? Girls! March is Women's History Month. Share these diverse stories of brave, fierce, powerful women of the past and present with tweens to inspire them throughout the year.

This month, check out a middle grade novel by John Schu, the latest book from Kelly Yang, and more.