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We're taking a little hiatus for the summer and looking forward to returning with reviews and programming news after Labor Day.  Happy S...

Jace has finally escaped. He is on his way to join his brother Christian because only Christian can understand what Jace has been through...

Plutonium is illegal to buy anywhere in the United States, but some Americans carry it inside their pacemaker batteries.  Bananas a...

Students exploring dinosaurs at the American Museum of Natural History yesterday.  Photo: Jessica Fenster-Sparber How did the universe ...

Imagine that one day your country decides to incarcerate you and your entire family. The crime? Your ethnicity. If your answer is fight...

This handsome, full-color comic tells Andersen’s original tale with gorgeous illustration.  The lettering is small and the text is mini...

After running away from her drug-addicted mother and abusive stepfather, Michelle finds herself all alone at NYC’s Port Authority bus te...

This cartoon-y adaptation of Homer’s epic poem jettisons the poetry to make room for silliness and gorgeously color-saturated illustr...

Starr Carter is one person in her neighborhood, a place she reluctantly refers to as “the ghetto,” and another person at school, an expen...

@School Library Journal's Annual Day of Dialog: from left to right: Anne Lotito Schuh, Paul Griffin, Lisa Von Drasek, and Jessica Fens...

Apartheid in South Africa is not a topic students or teachers usually approach with humor, which makes Noah’s book unique in a school...

Both images are from the photographer's website, www.thomasmarent.com Thomas Marent’s stunning high-definition photographs of...

“I am wild, untamed, unattached, unfettered.”  O’Connor does not disappoint when he finally allows us to hear Artemis’ voice, but he t...

Dream Jordan visits Passages Academy's school library at Horizon Juvenile Detention Center on May 10th, 2017.  Photo credit: Claudio L...

While the introductory premise to this manga series requires quite a suspension of disbelief--an alien threatening to destroy Earth has...

Dana is a young black writer living in California during the 1970s when she is suddenly thrust back in time to a slaveholding plantatio...

Tsukimi is a young woman whose passion in life is jellyfish and whose mother has passed away, leading Tsukimi to move into a women-onl...

A volume of poetry, portraiture, and history, Of Poetry & Protest is “unapologetically political,” specifically addressing police ...

Ms. Baxter-Sweet outside of Crosroads.  Photo re-posted from DNAinfo/Noah Hurowitz   Congratulations to Ms. Baxter-Sweet, Passages ...

This book is the only non-fiction text I've come across devoted to illuminating a narrative about the Panthers written in a manner...