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Teens to Celebrate “Hour of Code” Programs Starting December 8
The “Hour of Code” is a global movement with the aim of reaching tens of millions of students in 180-plus countries. Last year, 15 million kids worldwide learned about computer programming in “Hour of...
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SLJTeen Unlocks the Secrets of the Past with Debut Author Jessica Lidh
When most people think about Swedish-American fiction, Willa Cather might come up. But for young adults, there really isn’t much out there. In The Number 7 (Merit Press, 2014) debut author Jessica Lidh...
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JFK Essay Contest; Toyota Video Challenge; Gale Cengage Grant; Hunger Games...
JFK Profile in Courage 2015 Essay Contest Now Open for Submissions The annual Profile in Courage Essay Contest invites students from across the nation to write an essay describing an act of political...
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Miss Honey Award; Wolf Chronicles Giveaway; Teen Tech Grants | SLJTeen News
Apply Now for Social Justice Award Sponsored by Penguin Random House, the Miss Honey Social Justice Award seeks to recognize school librarians who have worked with teachers to execute a project, event,...
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Graphic Novel Reading Lists Now Available from ALSC
Three new graphic novel reading lists intended for children from kindergarten through eighth grade have been released by the Association of Library Services to Children (ALSC), a division of the...
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From the Bell Tower to the City Gates, Teens Review Titles by Kristen...
Our teen reviewers offer up a big dose of contemporary coming-of-age fiction, with just a dash of dystopia. The featured titles touch on teen suicide, PTSD, sexism, mental illness, and more. MAGGI,...
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2014 Cybils Award Finalists Announced
The Children and Young Adult Blogger Literary Awards (Cybils) aim to recognize the children’s and young adult authors and illustrators whose books combine the highest literary merit and popular appeal....
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Circle the Globe with Jack Berenson; Get a Lift from Adobe Through...
Globe-Trotting Giveaway Jack Berenson, a phobia-plagued, checklist-making sixth grader, just wants a normal childhood. But he keeps getting caught up in his globe-trotting parents’ get-rich-quick...
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Chattanooga (TN) Public Library Launches Online High School Diploma Program...
Libraries are continually looking to provide their communities with needed and valued services, and now, Chattanooga (TN) Public Library (CPL), in partnership with Gale/Cengage Learning, is giving its...
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Teens Review Unique Coming-of-Age Novels and a High-Wire Mystery
The setting for The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley is the hospital pediatric ward, while Billy Kinsey in The Tragic Age deals with having a dysfunctional family by reading Heidegger. The Storyspinner, a...
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Technology Pilots in Colorado Juvenile Facility Libraries Support Learning...
The Division of Youth Corrections (DYC), part of the Colorado Department of Human Services, in partnership with the Colorado State Library, has recently launched multiple technology pilot projects in...
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“Out of Easy” College Scholarship; Sample Friesen’s “Both of Me” | SLJTeen News
Out of the Easy College Scholarship Essay Contest Do you know teens on the lookout for college scholarship opportunities? Have them enter the Out of the Easy Essay Contest for a chance to win $5,000...
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Where the Stories Come From: Up Close with YA Author Laurie Boyle Crompton
Laurie Boyle Crompton is the YA author of Blaze (or Love in the Time of Supervillains) (2013), The Real Prom Queens of Westfield High (2014, both Sourcebooks) as well as her most recent title,...
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Secrets Sad and True in Henry Turner’s “Ask the Dark” | Interview
Billy Zeets’s life is far from perfect. His mother has recently died, leaving his family deeply in debt from medical bills. His father, desperately working at as many jobs as he can to pay the bills,...
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Aliens, Coney Island, & a Glitter Princess: Michael Buckley on His YA Debut...
Micheal Buckley at a pier in Coney Island, where Undertow is set. Michael Buckley may be best known among the middle grade set as the author of the “Sisters Grimm” and “NERDS” series (both Abrams), but...
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