School Libraries

Watch! The Newbery Medal–winning author competes against a middle school class in this new episode of Author-Fan Face-Off, the kid lit game show hosted by historian and award-winning author Steve Sheinkin and school librarian Stacey Rattner. 

The National Coalition Against Censorship creates a Book Challenge Crisis Hotline and Youth Censorship Database and Map in response to the rising censorship attempts across the county; We Need Diverse Books offers new educator grants; Cook Prize nominees announced; and more news. 

The platform is driving up circulation in school libraries as students seek hot titles. And BookTok fans who’d never set foot in the library before are doing just that.

Get ready for Women's History Month with this playlist spotlighting trailblazers including Shirley Chisholm, Frida Kahlo, Ángela Peralta, and others. For ages five and up.

Hand these school capers to elementary and middle school kids who are excited about the show based on the Lincoln Peirce series.

Amanda Jones, 2021 School Librarian of the Year, was supported by her principal and district leadership while handling a challenge to the award-winning book.

SLJ asked readers to report censorship and received dozens of submissions to our tips hotline. Here are just a few of the stories librarians shared.

Watch now! In this episode of the kid lit game show, Fipps and a middle school contestant go head-to-head on the finer points of Starfish. 

A New Jersey school librarian offers a revealing account of her experience at the center of an attempt to remove books from her library. She also presents ideas for the ongoing fight against censorship.