School Libraries

In 2020, school and public libraries pivoted and innovated to meet the needs of students and patrons during the concurrent pandemic, social justice uprising, and volatile political divide, according to ALA's report.

From Charlie Parker and Nellie Bly to Mae Jemison and Ada Lovelace, remarkable individuals get the graphic treatment in these titles recommended for grades 3 and up.

Find ways to celebrate and advocate for your libraries.

With gorgeous words with affecting narratives, these middle grade and YA #OwnVoices titles provide excellent listening for National Poetry Month and beyond.

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. 

Scholastic will no longer publish or distribute Dav Pilkey's The Adventures of Ook and Gluk; Comic-Con is coming back in-person; plus an Alice Walker picture book and more in this edition of News Bites.

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.

The pandemic has significantly impacted school library budgets and spending this year. Here's what has changed.