School Libraries

Presenting the 2022 average book prices, produced annually by SLJ in partnership with Follett and Baker & Taylor.

Applications open for ALA's annual "Game On" gaming grant program; LibraryPass announces more than one million checkouts in Comics Plus in 2022; 2023 Audie Awards finalists; and Lee & Low's New Voices Award winners in News Bites.

A roundup of recent book challenge efforts and the news on the fight for intellectual freedom from Florida to California.

Books need to leave room for a child’s feelings while normalizing divorce, encouraging questions, and teaching coping skills, experts say.

African Town wins the 2023 Scott O'Dell Award; SCBWI announces grant winners; WNDB is taking grant applications; and more in this edition of News Bites.

The 2023 Youth Media Awards and librarian opinions about the Newbery dominated reader attention.

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.”

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

Fighting for environmental justice, these young people write some books of their own, too.