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Reluctant Readers: New Approaches to Reading Struggles

6 days ago | slj.com | Amanda MacGregor |J. Caleb Mozzocco

With the 2024 Nation’s Report Card showing further declines in reading, more support for struggling readers and their educators has never been more important. And the rise of the evidence-based science of reading in recent years has made clear that a multifaceted approach works best. “We know that struggling readers need engaging, decodable texts that build vocabulary, background knowledge, comprehension, and cultural capital as well,” says Sarah Forbes, publisher, DK Learning.
Author Adina King on YA Debut ‘The House No One Sees’ | 5 Questions and a Rec

1 week ago | slj.com | Trisha Tobias |a Rec |Amanda MacGregor |Kara Yorio

In this Q&A series, SLJ poses five questions and a request for a book recommendation to a debut YA author. Adina King shares about The House No One Sees in this latest installment. 1. Congrats on your YA debut! How would you describe your book to readers? Thank you! The House No One Sees is a contemporary YA with surrealist elements written in alternating prose and verse. It is the story of Penelope Ross, a girl who must walk through her past to save her present.
3 Small-Town Stories for Tweens | Middle Grade Spotlight

2 weeks ago | slj.com | Amanda MacGregor

In these three novels, the pace and proximity of small-town life play a vital role in characters’ disparate journeys that are ultimately bids for safety, recognition, and belonging. Chu, Kyle Casey. The Queen Bees of Tybee County. 320p. HarperCollins/Quill Tree. Apr. 2025. Tr $19.99. ISBN 9780063326958. Gr 6 Up–It’s the “Summer of Yes” for seventh grade Chinese American Derrick Chan.
Author Trisha Tobias on YA Debut

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?
10 Things I Love About Starred Reviews | Opinion

2 weeks ago | slj.com | Kimberly Olson Fakih |Kathy Ishizuka

Starred reviews are always good news, for what they mean and for what happens next. 10 Things I Love About Starred Reviews [Read: 10 Things I Hate About Starred Reviews]Recently I wrote an opinion piece, and the counter-arguments began to roll in immediately. Thank you, Mrs. DeWald, high school debate team coach. I really can pick a fight with anyone. Here's what I love about giving books starred reviews.
Innovative Octopuses, Half-Brained Birds, and More Animals with Magnificent Minds

2 weeks ago | slj.com | Christina Couch |Kate Olson

Gr 4-7–This newest addition to the “Extraordinary Animals” series features six different animals and the qualities that make their brains exceptional. Readers start off learning about octopuses, and then move to parrots, squirrels, other birds, tortoises, and whales. Each chapter uses that animal as a jumping-off point and weaves in related topics about brain science and other animals through colored feature boxes and callouts.
Climate Is Just the Start

3 weeks ago | slj.com | Shelley Diaz

. Mar. 2025. 208p. Tr $17.99. ISBN 9780593897324. COPY ISBN Gr 4-8–A high-energy but uneven primer on climate justice. UK activist Loach, who is of Jamaican descent, presents a call to action to tweens on climate justice issues. In this passionate and friendly narrative, she shares jaw-dropping facts like how 20 percent of people are responsible for 80 percent of the world’s consumption.
23 Hefty Titles for Small Hands | Board Books Roundup

3 weeks ago | slj.com | Betsy Bird |Kathy Ishizuka |Brooke Newberry |Rachel Payne

As board books continue to evolve, they’re cleverly expanding to meet the needs of readers even as they approach early school age. Board books are continuing to blossom in their nonfiction era. This roundup features a collection of fact-filled titles, offering a lot of nature exploration for our youngest readers. With developmentally appropriate text and interactive elements, these volumes provide early exposure to a rich vocabulary and a deeper understanding of the world.
3 Novels Explore Connections Across Time | Middle Grade Spotlight

3 weeks ago | slj.com | Amanda MacGregor

These three books poignantly explore characters whose relationships to the past heavily influence their present. These three books poignantly explore characters whose relationships to the past heavily influence their present. Fodor, Kate & Laurie Petrou. The Rehearsal Club. 352p. Groundwood. Feb. 2025. pap. $17.99. ISBN 9781773069913. Gr 5 Up–Pal (short for Paloma) has just moved to New York City from Arizona with her parents, and it’s a big adjustment.
Run Away with Me

3 weeks ago | slj.com | Alicia Rogers |Jerry Craft

Gr 8 Up–In Rome for the summer of 1986, 16-year-old American Danny is left to explore on his own as his mother, a librarian, diligently works at a museum and book conservancy whose precise history has been lost in the mists of time. Danny feels an unexplained presence pushing him around the city and at last meets Angelo, a heavenly and mysterious curly-haired Italian boy who insists he is 2,738 years old.