In covering achievements in the library world, it’s natural to focus on outcomes, reporting and raising up the endpoint of success. This story represents a win, for sure. But as Colleen Kilbreath, director of the Stanton County (KS) Public Library recalls, it stemmed from failure.

Public library staff can identify children with developmental delays and inform families of available resources.

As many young children and caregivers take their first steps back into the outside world, library play can help young children remember how to engage with peers, while surrounded with materials that foster learning.

I think for most teens, romantic relationships aren’t the defining relationships of their teen years—friendships are. And friendships can be so much more complex and intense when we place them inside the pressure cooker of a competitive and grueling sport.

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This is a standout book about runaways finding what they need in the strangest of ways. Just lovely.

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So many great new and forthcoming middle grade and YA books! Get out those TBR lists!

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The online resource Padlet can be a very useful and creative tool for librarians. Here, a teen librarian shares different ways she uses this platform for her programs.

Alex Gino issues an apology and new title for their award-winning book, the Obamas are bringing Blackout to Netflix, and a lot of publishing news in this installment of News Bites.

Today we share a guest post about helping a teen deal with anxiety and sending them off to college.

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