The Wonderful Things You Will Be Summary. Every child is special, and parents can’t wait to see what they will one day be! Emily Winfield Martin’s lovely novel fantasies about what…
Youngsters' image books are intended to ignite the creative mind while giving children a significant message, whether that is tied in with being thoughtful to each other, managing extreme sentiments,…
Reasonable fiction, a classification that perfectly reflects genuine's intricacies, delights, and battles, has for some time been a foundation of writing. With its significant capacity to enamor perusers, this sort…
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…
