The ELA debate continues without clear consensus on where teaching is trending and how school librarians factor into the equation. Susan Barber was shocked at what she was hearing at her district ...

School librarians are indispensable allies in literacy instruction. Amid mounting anxiety over literacy scores, reports of fewer students reading for pleasure, and fractured attention spans, the ...

VERDICT Readers across the board will flock to this book that has something for nearly everyone—humor, bullying, self-acceptance, cross-generational relationships, and a smartly fateful ending.

School library budgets showed mixed gains and losses over the past year, with a range of outside factors adding to constraints. While the numbers aren’t alarming on the surface, more than half of ...

The 2025 YA Best Books list has a choice for every teen—long-anticipated companion novels, adorable rom-coms, and genre-bending romantasy. BEST BOOKS HOME PAGE ANCRUM, K. The Corruption of Hollis ...

Promote the freedom to read with banned books bingo, trading cards, fiery displays, and more. Banned Books Week (September 23–29) offers a great opportunity to highlight titles that are often ...

The average book prices are produced annually by SLJ in partnership with Follett and Baker & Taylor. Here are the average book prices released in 2023, produced annually by SLJ in partnership with ...

A public librarian’s interaction with teens affirms her faith in bibliotherapy, as does her research. Read her story, along with a recommended list of realistic YA fiction. We invite you to suggest ...

Thus far into the year, hundreds of books have received a prestigious starred review from School Library Journal, providing a wonderful array of choices for readers. These titles showcase a myriad of ...

What the season’s picture books do collectively is resist categories. They are, first and foremost, good books, which is the only category that holds meaning when in the hands of readers. Fall 2026 ...

Neon Squid. (Myth Busters). Oct. 2024. 80p. Tr $17.99. ISBN 9781684493791.