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…
Photo credit: Cheryl Fusco JohnsonWe’re excited to have Dori Hillestad Butler(one of our Mixed-Up Files of Middle Grade Readers members) on here today to talk well-nigh her new release.Hi, Dori!!…
Welcome to the1,000 Facts Well-nigh SpaceBlog Tour!Get ready to wham off on an illuminating journey to the uttermost reaches of the universe as we gloat the release of the 1,000…
James Bird’s THE BRAVE (Feiwel and Friends, 320 pp., $16.99; ages 9 to 12) is a bighearted book about Collin. Collin has a few problems. The most pressing is his…
I remember 12 as a particularly stressful age. My family had recently moved to England, and for a time I was the center of attention, asked to repeat things in…
In the tradition of Ransom Riggs’s “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” and Katherine Dunn’s “Geek Love,” Lisa Brown’s THE PHANTOM TWIN (First Second, 208 pp., $17.99; ages 12 to…
For every generation categorized as “lazy” or “uninformed,” along comes a group of young people to Shut. That. Down. In 1960, it was four college students in Greensboro, N.C., who began…
All hail the best friend! That person we confide in and listen to without fear or judgment. The one with whom we share in-jokes. The one who holds our hand,…
Fairly often one of my students raises a hand in class just as I’m saying something that feels important. When the palm hangs there, imploring but impertinent, I turn and…
In 1955 Beverly Cleary published “Beezus and Ramona,” and the world fell in love with Ramona Quimby, a spark plug of a kid sister who made being bad look like…
