Karen Jensen

2 weeks ago | slj.com | Amanda MacGregor |Kara Yorio |Karen Jensen

In this Q&A series, SLJ poses five questions and a request for a book recommendation to a debut YA author. Trisha Tobias shares about Honeysuckle and Bone in this latest installment. In this Q&A series, SLJ poses five questions and a request for a book recommendation to a debut YA author. Trisha Tobias shares about Honeysuckle and Bone in this latest installment. 1. Congrats on your YA debut! How would you describe your book to readers?

1 month ago | slj.com | Emma Smith |Shelley Diaz |Karen Jensen |Molly Beth

. Jan. 2025. 32p. Tr $31.32. ISBN 9781669088622; pap. $9.99. ISBN 9781669088639. COPY ISBN Gr 3-5–A slim, kid-friendly volume on what it was like to be a child growing up on the infamous prison island. Smith takes readers on a tour of Alcatraz Island, focusing more on the families of the guards who lived there rather than on the inmates. In its heyday in the 1930s, there were approximately 60–90 families and 75–100 children living there.

1 month ago | slj.com | Candace Fleming |Shelley Diaz |Karen Jensen |Molly Beth

. Mar. 2025. 160p. Tr $26.99. ISBN 9781546110286. COPY ISBN Gr 3-7–The always versatile Fleming guides kids on a quest to uncover the truth of the Loch Ness monster.

2 months ago | slj.com | Kathy Ishizuka |Karen Jensen |Kara Yorio |Jess deCourcy Hinds

Herewith, the topics that drew reader attention in an eventful first week of February 2025. Parse away. School Librarians Celebrated at Sundance Film Festival Screening of Documentary, ‘The Librarians’By Kara YorioThere were tears and standing ovations as librarians, including Martha Hickson and Amanda Jones, watched their stories of fighting against censorship chronicled in the new film. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion. Now More Than Ever.

Jan 21, 2025 | slj.com | Jonathan Hunt |Karen Jensen

After writing two children’s books about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, author Debbie Levy was searching for another story about law to share with kids. She found it—and so much more. The story of the Scopes Trial—which Levy documents in her new book,A Dangerous Idea: The Scopes Trial, the Original Fight over Science in Schools—is one that highlights the debate over free speech, education, science, and religion with larger-than-life characters and less-than-pure motives.