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March Madness: Pick Your Favorite September/October Horn Book Magazine Cover!
Cover Madness continues! Voting is over for the July/August covers. Next up are the September/October covers. Pick your favorite from each group — let us know your favorites in the comments! Come back next week to see which covers advance to the next round. Read the Cover Madness rules here. Click on any...
Stand with the Banned: Banned Books Week 2023
It’s Banned Books Week again, and the censorship of books is more dire than ever. From The American Library Association’s website (it's long, but important): Every year, ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) compiles a list of the Top 10 Most Challenged Books in order to inform the public about censorship in libraries and schools. The...
Banned Books Week 2022
It’s Banned Books Week! From The American Library Association’s website: “ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) receives reports from libraries, schools, and the media on attempts to ban books in communities across the country. We compile lists of challenged books in order to inform the public about censorship efforts that...
Banned Books Week 2021
It’s Banned Books Week! From The American Library Association’s website: “ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) receives reports from libraries, schools, and the media on attempts to ban books in communities across the country. We compile lists of challenged books in order to inform the public about censorship efforts that...
Banned Books Week 2018
It’s Banned Books Week! From The American Library Association’s website: “Every year, the Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) compiles a list of the Top Ten Most Challenged Books in order to inform the public about censorship in libraries and schools. The lists are based on information from media stories and...
Review of The Spell Book of Listen Taylor
Jaclyn Moriarty The Spell Book of Listen Taylor479 pp. Levine/Scholastic 9/07 isbn 978-0-439-84678-3 $16.99 g(High School)Moriarty (The Year of Secret Assignments, rev. 3/04; The Life Murder of Bindy Mackenzie, rev. 1/07) returns with another madly convoluted, over-the-top comedy-drama-mystery told from multiple points of view. Twelve-year-old Listen Taylor is too ashamed...
A Second Look: Annie on My Mind
Annie on My Mind and I grew up together. Published twenty-five years ago in 1982, this now-canonical lesbian-coming-of-age novel was one of the first books I ever reviewed. Sally Holmes Holtze was then assistant editor at School Library Journal’s book review section, working with Pam Pollack, and I was a...
Review of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indianby Sherman Alexie; illus. by Ellen ForneyMiddle School, High School Little 232 pp.9/07 978-0-316-01368-0 $16.99 gThe line between dramatic monologue, verse novel, and standup comedy gets unequivocally — and hilariously and triumphantly — bent in this novel about coming of age on the...
Sexed: What Makes a Good Sex Ed Book?
Growing up Catholic, I was always afraid of something: unconfessed sins; demonic possession; Sister Alice, my grade school principal, who once clamped her talons on my shoulder and marched me to her office for having a boy’s name magic-markered across my palm while receiving Holy Communion. But the one thing...
The Genre of Gender: The Emerging Canon of Transgender-Inclusive YA Literature
Contemporary young adult literature is a remarkably open universe, integrating controversial subjects and allowing topics earlier considered inappropriate for teen readers to become legitimate areas of exploration, conversation, and debate. Today’s teen readers are accustomed to novels containing drinking and drug use, gay and lesbian characters, active sexuality, teen pregnancy,...
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