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Jan1The Cook Who Defended Pearl Harbor: A Graphic Novel Biography of Doris “Dorie” Miller by Shawn Pryor, illustrated by Alessandro Valdrighi.  CapstoneDivya’s Supersecret Plan by Abhilasha Khatri …

What the Executive Order slashing the Institute of Museum and Library Services means, how it will impact you, and what you should do right now to stop the cuts.

Get your hands on some of the best new YA books hitting shelves this month.

The Trump administration is denying accurate passports to trans, intersex, and nonbinary people – so I’m joining the ACLU to fight back. Urge the State Department to reject this dangerous attack on ou...

Software engineer and developer Nadia Odunayo created the social media readers’ platform StoryGraph and its popularity has rocketed

On the evening of March 8, 2025, Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil was detained by the Department of Homeland Security. The arrest comes on the heels of the Department of State’s ann...

Four years after her historic inaugural poem, Amanda Gorman reflects on its impact, censorship, and her mission to uplift young voices.

As many as 1,360 children have never been reunited with their parents six years after the United States government forcibly separated them at the US border, and US efforts to help separated families h...

Since 2021 and as of today, Feb. 4, 2025, six of my seven novels and two anthologies including my work have been censored in 96 cases across 20 states.