Daryl Grabarek

Images courtesy of Karen Jensen Music imprints on the brain. Favorite songs release feel-good chemicals like dopamine and serotonin, and the impact is even greater with the music we hear and love between ages 12 and 22, when hormones and neurological development ingrain these songs into our brains like no others.

★Baumgärtel, Bettina & Annette Wickham. Angelica Kauffman. Royal Academy of Arts. May 2024. 128p. ISBN 9781915815033. $30. FINE ARTS This book by the co-curators of an exhibition of the same name at London’s Royal Academy of Arts, spotlights the career of one of the two founding women members of the Royal Academy. Angelica Kauffman’s membership was an important accomplishment, as women artists would not be elected as members to the Academy for another 200 years.

SLJ asked savvy librarians to share new things they’re planning, what they’re excited about, and advice for fellow librarians. Here’s what they had to say. Amanda Chacon, Librarian C.E. King High School, Houston 2024 School Librarian of the Year New things. I am very excited to transition from an elementary school to my district’s sole high school, currently serving grades 10–12. A new initiative a middle school librarian and I are starting is a monthly webinar called Empower Hour.