Public Libraries

The anniversary of women gaining the right to vote is a good time to revisit resources and offer titles that teach not only about the suffrage movement, but the women who continued the fight for equal pay, education, and more.

Battles over book banning continue at school board meetings and in state legislatures across the country. Now politicians are targeting publishers, too.

Getting real about the stormy, frustrating, and sometimes sad aspects of friendship can help middle schoolers navigate social interactions, research shows.

Hand these middle grade and YA titles to kids watching the new Netflix series about British teen ghost hunters, adapted from books by Jonathan Stroud.

Hand these books to middle graders in need of some magical tales. 

Hand these books to tweens and teens who love Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. 

Ed tech platform Edmodo will shut down in September, the Center for Antiracist Education will no longer produce new materials; Sora is a Google Classroom add-on, and more in this edition of News Bites.

New policies are impacting school library purchases in Pennsylvania and Florida; one Texas district cancels its Scholastic Book Fairs for the year; and a South Carolina state senator threatens to eliminate the salaries of public library executives in his county in the latest Censorship Roundup.

SLJ and NCTE collaborated to create 18 booklists of titles to replace, or use as a companion to, canon "classics."