A federal judge has ordered the Cedarville (AR) School District to return Harry Potter books to the library, in the nation's first legal decision involving a ban of the popular J. K. Rowling series. The April 22 ruling was the result of a lawsuit claiming a 2002 school-board ban of Harry Potter was unconstitutional (see News , April 2003, p. 22).
2009 National Book Awards On the red carpet with nominees in the Young People's Literature category.
Photos by Rocco Staino.
SLJ Covers 2009 A bigger and better view of SLJ's covers from 2009
BookExpo America 2009: SLJ's Day of Dialog School Library Journal held a Day of Dialog in conjunction with the annual BookExpo America on May 28, 2009 at the Brooklyn Public Library. Full story: bit.ly/1a0G7o