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Sep 25, 2024 | slj.com | Kara Yorio |Anne Price-Gordon |Debbie Ridpath Ohi

SLJ modified: siraanamwong/Getty Images By any measure, Algonquin Young Readers (AYR) has been a hit since it launched in 2011— curating a list of unique and award-winning middle grade and YA titles from a stable of celebrated authors and illustrators. But despite that success, the imprint closed this week.

Sep 23, 2024 | slj.com | Brooklyn by |Nile by |Anne Price-Gordon |Debbie Ridpath Ohi

PEN America released a memo with preliminary book banning numbers, showing a huge increase in banned titles from the previous school year; Carole Boston Weatherford is the 2024 Young People's Poet Laureate; We Need Diverse Books honored by Library of Congress; and more. PEN America releases preliminary book ban numbersMore than 10,000 books were banned in public schools during the 2023-2024 school year, according to PEN America’s preliminary findings memoreleased Monday, September 23.

Sep 16, 2024 | schoollibraryjournal.com | Debbie Ridpath Ohi |Kara Yorio |Kathy Ishizuka |Anne Price-Gordon

With the November 5 presidential election fast approaching, social media feeds are increasingly inundated with political messaging. “If young people are on social media, they are coming in contact with election information,” says Michelle Ciulla Lipkin, executive director of the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE). Students are likely seeing a mix of mainstream media stories, influencer takes, memes, clips from speeches, and more.

Sep 9, 2024 | slj.com | Kathy Ishizuka |Andrew Bauld |Kara Yorio |Anne Price-Gordon

Here we go! Readers let loose on middle grade and disinvited authors. Oh, they’re coming. —jasonreynolds83I have been wondering this for years!! A book that is 140 pages with great character development and plot would be loved. Kids are not willing to invest in longer books. —brenjliuAll my MG novels are short! The BAT books, the HARRIET books, and my stand-alones, too. — elanakarnold👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Can’t build reading stamina with 300 page books. And these readers don’t want to read Magic Tree House.

Sep 3, 2024 | slj.com | Kara Yorio |Anne Price-Gordon |Debbie Ridpath Ohi |Kathy Ishizuka

Rudzhan Nagiev, kbeis (both Getty Images). SLJ montage. The U.S. presidential election will offer voters two very different paths for public education. Vice President Kamala Harris has not yet outlined her specific education priorities as presidential hopeful. But when she chose Minnesota governor—and former public school social studies and geography teacher—Tim Walz as her running mate, she signaled the ticket’s support of public schools and teachers.