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Hand these titles to YA readers taken with Tim Burton's twist on the classic Addams Family franchise.

Seven recent works and an overview of recent Black comics publishing.

Travis Jonker raises up the best titles for reading aloud. “Some will be obvious and popular. Others lesser known. All will be story time gold.”

Readers welcomed our coverage of the youth media awards, a new ambassador and, yes, ChatGPT.

Including fiction, nonfiction, and memoir, these titles cover topics from the making of the atomic bomb to the history of video games.

Dragons take center stage in these series for elementary kids watching the Netflix adaptation of Ruth Stiles Gannett's 1948 classic.

These bold Caldecott titles broke new ground in many different ways. 

This year's SLJ Best Books cover, was created by Guojing, author/illustrator of The Flamingo, a 2022 SLJ Best Book. Guojing is the 25th cover artist in an annual tradition of Best Books covers that began in 1998.

Censorship and the fight for intellectual freedom led our most viewed stories of the year, along with recommendations toward “Refreshing the Canon,” a joint project with NCTE.