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Journalism & Publishing Before and After the Book Deal: A Writer's Guide to Finishing, Publishing, Promoting, and Surviving Your First Book. By Courtney Maum. Catapult, paper, $16.95 (9781948226400). Invaluable for [...]

Black Stories Matter Series. Crabtree. Gr. 4-7. (4 titles) Amazing Artists. ByJ. P. Miller. Illus. by Chellie Carroll. 2021. 48p. paper, $10.95 (9781427128119); lib. ed., $31.32 (9781427128072). 920. Brave Leaders [...]

This announcement section offers readers a selected preview of notable new titles for young-adult, middle-grade, and young readers. All titles will be published in the spring or summer 2023 seasons. [...]

These books are recommended by Bluelnk Review, a fee-based review service. Every month, Bluelnk will compile a list of their favorite self-published titles for Booklist, as a service to librarians [...]

Adult Books The most outstanding adult books of 2021, titles selected by Booklist's adult books editors from all the starred reviews of the year across our expansive nonfiction and fiction [...]

The work of Lee Miller (1907-77) was rediscovered 20 years ago, prompting a flurry of books illuminating her daring and dramatic life and remarkable achievements as a fashion model, artist, [...]

Nonfiction Journalism & Publishing The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance. By Ross King. Atlantic Monthly, $30 (9780802158529). King engagingly chronicles the rise of [...]

This announcement section offers readers a selected preview of notable new tides for young adult, middle-grade, and young readers. All titles will be published in the spring or summer 2021 [...]

When my peers and I were awaiting our first period, reading Judy Blume's Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret was a rite of passage, partly because it helped us [...]

Older Readers Apple: Skin to the Core. By Eric Gansworth. Illus. by the author. Levine Querido, $18.99 (9781646140138). Gr. 10-12. Gansworth, a tribally enrolled Onandaga, offers an illuminating memoir in [...]

Urban development doesn't have to come at the price of our wildlife and natural resources. Describing everything from community gardens and bee hives to green spaces and crossings that allow [...]

These books are recommended by Bluelnk Review; a fee-based review service. Every month, Bluelnk will compile a list of their favorite self-published titles for Booklist, as a service to librarians [...]

Adult Books Booklist's Adult Books editors celebrated the years starred titles in one scintillating, annotated roll call in the December 15 issue. We JLJ have now selected the very best [...]

The Rainbow Round Table and the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Library Association are pleased to offer the 2023 Rainbow Project bibliography of recommended titles for youth from [...]

Garbage might not spring to mind as a fertile topic of discussion, but a number of fantastic books--both fiction and not--celebrate the wonders found in trash heaps and recycling bins. [...]

These books are recommended by Bluelnk Review, a fee-based review service. Every month, Bluelnk will compile a list of their favorite self-published titles for Booklist, as a service to librarians [...]

This announcement section offers Booklist readers a preview of notable new titles for young-adult, middle-grade, and young readers. All titles will be published in the upcoming fall 2019 season. YOUNG [...]

Fiction All the Devils Are Here. By Louise Penny. Read by Robert Bathurst. 14hr. Macmillan, DD, $26.99 (9781250760616). Lingering descriptions of Paris, a heightened emotional tenor, and a broad cast [...]

The following nonfiction series, both new and continuing mark the season's newest releases available in Spanish. New Series Animales asiaticos (Asian Animals). ABDO/Kids Jumbo. Individual titles, lib. ed. $32.79. PreS-Gr. [...]

These books are recommended by Bluelnk Review, a fee-based review service devoted exclusively to self-published books. Every other issue, Bluelnk will compile a list of their favorites for Booklist, as [...]

Dolphins, sharks, and sea turtles are ocean stars and popular subjects of books for children. This annotated bibliography dives deeper to look at more unusual inhabitants that call the darkest [...]

Rap brings intelligence and wordplay to the table in this hip-hop-driven collection. Language never sounded so good. Does anyone remember when mainstream media first discovered rap? Meaningless noise; obnoxious bass; [...]

These books are recommended by BlueInk Review, a fee-based review service devoted exclusively to self-published books. Every other issue, BlueInk will compile a list of their favorites for Booklist, as [...]

In a slight departure from our typical series coverage, this showcase features series that use fictional stories in the form of picture books, choose-your-own path adventures, literary classics, and graphic [...]

The wide-ranging critical acclaim and popularity of John Lewis' graphic memoir series March is a testament to comics' ability to captivatingly relate vivid, expressive narratives grounded firmly in the facts [...]

As we discover more every year about the remarkable intelligence of other species, we need to be smart and stop destroying the biosphere so that we can continue to live [...]

In funding and curricular support, arts education hasn't always gotten the. attention that STEM education has received. But arts electives remain an important experience for kids and teens--developmentally, educationally, and [...]

Most of us credit Thomas Edison for the lights in our homes and Alexander Graham Bell for the phone constantly in our hands. But there are plenty of other inventions [...]

This announcement section offers Booklist readers a preview of notable new titles for young adult, middle grade, and young readers. All titles will be published in the upcoming fall 2016 [...]

These books are recommended by BlueInk Review, a fee-based review service devoted exclusively to self-published books. Every month, BlueInk compiles a list of their favorites for Booklist, as a service [...]

Big Fat Notebook Series. Workman. Gr. 8-12. (2 New Titles) Everything You Need to Ace Chemistry in One Big Fat Notebook. By the Editors of Brain Quest[R] and Jennifer Swanson. [...]

This announcement section offers Booklist readers a preview of notable new titles for young adult, middle grade, and young readers. All titles will be published in the upcoming fall 2015 [...]

Children have a natural interest in using blocks, Erector sets, Lincoln Logs, and LEGOs to build things. Sometimes they call upon their own creativity, and other times they follow detailed [...]

These books are recommended by Bluelnk Review, a fee-based review service devoted exclusively to self-published books. Every month, Bluelnk compiles a list of their favorites for Booklist, as a service [...]

These books are recommended by Bluelnk Review, a fee-based review service devoted exclusively to self-published books. Every month, Bluelnk compiles a list of their favorites for Booklist, as a service [...]

With the exception of Native American voices, American literature has been written by refugees, colonists, those brought to the United States by force, immigrants, and their descendants. Yet a truly [...]

These books are recommended by Bluelnk Review, a fee-based review service devoted exclusively to self-published books. Every month, Bluelnk compiles a list of their favorites for Booklist, as a service [...]

These books are recommended by BlueInk Review, a fee-based review service devoted exclusively to self-published books. Every other month, BlueInk will compile a list of their favorites for Booklist, as [...]

One year ago, the David Macaulay Studio was launched as an imprint of Macmillan Children's Publishing Group. The intent of this imprint is to offer a series of leveled beginning [...]

Adult Books The Adult Books editors have selected the following titles as representative of the year's outstanding books for public library collections. Our scope has been intentionally broad, and we [...]

As we do each January, we've compiled the Booklist staff's best JL A. personal reads of the previous year. Unlike the past, and for obvious reasons, 2020 was particularly stressful [...]

The day may be over as sleepy children head off to bed, but parents know that the questions continue: 'What's that noise outside?' ' Can a bat hurt me?' ' [...]

Feathers, flight, and a link to dinosaurs! Birds are amazing creatures and a source of unending beauty and fascination. Since prehistoric times, birds have inspired art and mythology, and our [...]

For many children (and adults), trash is often out of sight, out of mind. But when we throw our trash out, where is out? According to Trash Talk, by Amy [...]

Committed to providing a broad selection of outstanding books that mixes popular appeal with literary excellence, the Books for Youth editorial staff has chosen the titles below as best-of-the-year nonfiction [...]

Children find me interesting. Perhaps I should be more specific to avoid overstating myself: children find my prosthetic arm interesting. When I worked as a librarian in a public library, [...]

Talking with Barbara Kerley Narrative nonfiction, sometimes called creative nonfiction, is a term used to describe a true story--that is related in a fictional style-the author pays close attention to [...]

The Great Graphic Novels for Teens list is compiled annually by a committee of the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) and comprises recommended graphic novels for readers ages 12 [...]

Committed to providing a broad selection of outstanding books that mixes popular appeal with literary excellence, the Books for Youth editorial staff has chosen the titles below as best-of-the-year nonfiction, [...]

We are likely to think of refugees as displaced people living in crowded, miserable camps. Those are the images that the media presents. My own experience with refugees has been [...]