Join School Library Journal on Thursday, August 5, 2021 for their tenth annual SLJTeen Live! virtual event!
With hope on the horizon of an unprecedented, traumatic year, educators, librarians, and students are wondering: Where do we go from here?
So much of adolescence is preparing for the future—college, careers, adulthood, the next grade—and that's even tougher when no one knows what the future will look like. As we adjust to a new normal, we must move forward while remembering where we’ve come from. After a pandemic and amid continued tragedies of racist violence, teens and adults alike are called to heal and grow, to learn more, and to further conversations about history and justice. Through it all, books reflect and illuminate our lives, telling boundary-pushing stories that take publishing to the next level. As teens consider what comes after childhood, we all must think about what the future holds for students and storytelling.
The conference’s author panels and library programming sessions will help you support and engage teens in this new moment and beyond.