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…
Late in WHEN STARS ARE SCATTERED (Dial Books for Young Readers, 264 pp., $20.99; ages 9 to 12), 17-year-old Omar Mohamed is asked to write a paper on “What It…
Like “American Born Chinese” — his groundbreaking 2006 Y.A. debut, and the first graphic novel to be a finalist for the National Book Award — Gene Luen Yang’s DRAGON HOOPS…
In Kate Messner’s resonant, necessary CHIRP (Bloomsbury, 227 pp., $16.99; ages 8 to 12), 12-year-old Mia is on the mend — from a broken arm, after a fall from the…
MY BEST FRIENDWritten by Julie Fogliano Illustrated by Jillian Tamaki Image From “My Best Friend.” Two small girls spend a perfect day together in the park, making chalk drawings, twirling until they fall,…
The recent Iowa caucus debacle could serve as a primer on America’s not-quite-representative system of government. The malfunctioning app. The reporting delays and inconsistencies. The delegates determined by coin tosses…
Americans have always assumed that the key to undoing the all-encompassing framework of white supremacy lies, in part, in literacy. Literacy helped combat slavery in practical ways — reading and…
In the spring of 1880, in a railroad town in Dakota Territory, a girl in her 15th year bends over her sewing to help support her family. This might be…
Like many fictional families before them, the warm, vibrant Vanderbeeker family of 141st Street — 13-year-old twins Jessie and Isa, 10-year-old Oliver, 8-year-old Hyacinth and 6-year-old Laney — has developed…
This past summer bees were voted the most important living beings on earth. While I agree wholeheartedly, I also enjoy imagining this vote, conducted by scientists at the Royal Geographic…
