Public Libraries

These curated playlists for elementary, middle, and high school students feature dozens of podcasts that embrace the 2021 Collaborative Summer Library theme, Tails and Tales.

Many schools and libraries host fiction-focused book clubs, but it’s important to keep young info-lovers in mind, too. If a nonfiction book club seems like a good fit for the children at your school, why not give it a try. Here are some tips for getting started.

Banned Books Week has its first Honorary Chair; two titles created from The 1619 Project will be released in November; free webinars on teaching Juneteenth and reopening institutions after COVID vaccines; and more in this edition of News Bites.

April is Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month. Share these YA memoirs and nonfiction works about devastation and hope now, and year round.

Ebooks aren't ideal for tactile toddlers, but in virtual story times, they can minimize problems like glare and book size.

Hand these nail-biters to teens drawn to the movie based on Patrick Ness's novel The Knife of Never Letting Go.

Students looking forward to the eight-episode Netflix series, adapted from the novel by Leigh Bardugo, will like these action-packed titles. 

Hand these novels for fans of this reboot of the 1984 Karate Kid movie, in which Johnny Lawrence has grown up and opened his own dojo.

Horror fiction provides kids with an outlet and a method to cope with an overwhelming world.