This month, we Feature Terry Maguire, Secondary School Librarian at The American International School of Mozambique. She has been in Maputo for the past five years. She is passionate about keeping teens reading – even into the Diploma years. She is also excited about a local library project that she and a group of committed […]

Books hold many powers, as author Varsha Bajaj can attest. She credits books for helping her make the cultural transition to the United States after growing up in Mumbai, India. In turn, several of Bajaj’s middle grade novels and picture books now introduce young readers to intriguing details about her country of birth. Bajaj’s newest novel, Roar (Nancy Paulsen [...]

There are a lot of ways to describe Jason Reynolds’ books: Groundbreaking. Relatable. Gripping. Or as School Library Journal said recently in their starred review of Soundtrack: A Novel (Crown Books for Young Readers, 2026), “Librarians can’t go wrong putting any Reynolds novel on their shelves, and his latest is no exception.” The title came out in April as a [...]