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Filmmaker Ken Burns turns his talents to the beating and rape of a white woman in New York’s Central Park during racial and class strife in the late 1980s. Be sure to read the starred review of The Central Park Five, a moving documentary.

Enter a contest to determine who will voice Four in the Allegiant audiobook, the final book in Veronica Roth’s young adult dystopian trilogy. RIF and Macy’s have donated 10 million books to kids in need. Visit the Library of Congress’s 2013 National Book Festival in Washington, DC, in September.

Shilpa, Roya, Ahran, and Karan Mission: Club Academia strives to organize existing knowledge in ways that make learning easily accessible while simultaneously inspiring people to discover and innovate. Sometimes you meet a group of kids for whom being college and career ready is simple not enough.   As a high school librarian, I am often honored to work with [...]

Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon, Steven Sheinkin’s stellar nonfiction account, captures the science, technology, logistics, and politics of the race to build the first atomic bomb. Read the starred review of the audiobook.

Three friends take off in a hybrid car to tour America in order to discover how we are saving or destroying our planet in YERT: Your Environmental Road Trip. Read the starred review.

The perfect companion on a summer hike? National Geographic's digital guide to North American birds allows nature lovers to identify winged creatures, learn about their habits, and record sightings, all before they can say Ladder-backed Woodpecker.

Singer/songwriter Nina Stone hits all the right notes with her second album, Sha Doo Be Doop. Find out how in the starred review.

Our teens review music for R&B listeners as well as country/western fans; Kelly Rowland, well-known for her affiliation with Destiny's Child, dishes out tasty tunes on her lastest album ​Talk a Good Game​, while relative newbie Hunter Hayes hits the mark with his special release, ​Encore. Looking for a videogame experience that promises a "gut-wrenching journey full of action, horror, combat, and stealth?" Cue up ​The Last of Us​, a new release for Playstation 3.

The children’s graphic novel Papercutz, already home to the Smurfs, Annoying Orange, and Lego Ninjago graphic novels, is adding another licensed property to its lineup: A series of graphic novels based on the movie Rio, which will fill in the story between the original movie, which came out in 2011, and the sequel, Rio 2, [...]