Last Tuesday my daughter looked up from her book and said "I know who took the necklace." She was reading a mystery. I was reading the same book to her…

You have a ten year old at home. That child reads faster than you think. School books finish in one sitting. Library books feel too simple. The stories end before…

Nothing beats curling up with a kid and a book that screams "don't quit." I've done it a ton with my own little ones back in the day, watching their…

Published by Quill Tree BooksSummary: As they did with How to Write a Book, Melissa Sweet and Kwame Alexander (this time with Deanna Nikaido) swoop into the world of…

Published by Harry N. AbramsSummary: The narrator can’t wait to grow her hair out, believing, as her siblings did, that hair is a source of strength and memories. …

Published by Katherine TegenSummary: The Great Depression has taken just well-nigh everything yonder from Bea: her dad’s job, her mother, and her home. Now her father is drinking…

Published by Chronicle BooksSummary: As a child learns how to weave from a master, the two of them take a tour through history to squint at how weaving has…

Published by Quill Tree BooksSummary: Jordan Banks and his friends (and frenemies) from New Kid and Class Act are when for their last hurrah surpassing finishing up at Riverdale…

Published by HarperCollinsSummary: A girl is excited to be heading out for a weekly dim sum family gathering. She and her parents and sister throne to the restaurant…

Published by HarperCollinsSummary: The tragedian of Unsettled tells the story of her grandmother, Milloo, who grew up in India in the early 20th century. Milloo loved school, but…

Published by Sunbird BooksSummary: Six Black dancers, three men and three women, are profiled, each one given a few pages describing his or her career and the racism each…

Published by Eerdmans Books for Young ReadersSummary: It’s still visionless when the boy leaves to walk the nine kilometers (5.5 miles, 15,000 steps) to school. His walk takes…