News & Features

This month’s video game roundup features sequels, new installments in enduring ­series, and games set in familiar realms that can help players build skills they can apply to navigating the real world.

The National Council for History Education suggests these resources to help prepare lessons and discussions focusing on the lives and contributions of women throughout history.

This digital resource created by Penguin Random House is freely browsable. It provides broad community encouragement and support for resisting book challenges in school and public libraries, as well as links to a host of additional resources and advocacy groups.

Once again, Messner is connecting kid lit creators and educators for World Read Aloud Day in February.

The new year brings new education laws to states across the country; a young publisher's posthumous fundraiser continues to help others; Jeff Kinney honored by the Educational Book and Media Association; BCALA seeks scholarship submissions; and more in this edition of News Bites.

The selections in this issue of Series Made Simple cover a broad range of global topics, equipping readers with tools to build knowledge and community in an often isolating world.

How did Suzanne Collins dream up Panem and the Hunger Games? Influences range from Roman Gladiators to the Vietnam War, as this booklist shows. 

As educators seek to discuss the Israel-Hamas war with students, SLJ has curated related resources and books.

Tips for engaging young kids with these works, which can build visual literacy and foster social-emotional skills, plus a video demonstration.