SLJ Reviews

These reviews from the July issue feature audio performances of books by Nic Stone, Melissa Albert, Nikki Grimes, and Walter Dean Myers, among others.

Essential and exceptional titles reviewed in our July 2020 issue, including picture books, middle grade, YA, nonfiction, graphic novels, and audiobooks for children and teens.

Anthropomorphic animals, emotive androids, an enchanted Chicago, and more: These 16 titles provide excellent summer escapes for young readers.

Ten adventure and survival fiction titles to keep summer reading fresh and exciting.

From alternate histories to dystopian futures, these teen genre selections offer up magic, mermaids, mechsuits, and more.

Readers will cheer for these YA books about boxing, basketball, field hockey, and more.

Featuring vivid settings, relatable characters, and absorbing narratives, these moving titles will inspire readers to learn more about these eras—and to question whose stories still go untold.

Nothing like bugs that fizz, animals with mucus-skin, and slimy information about digestion to get the whole family in on these weird science lessons!

These immersive works of historical fiction surface events often omitted by textbooks, blend history and other genres, and urge readers to reconsider the past and look to the future.