Ruta Sepetys takes little nuggets of history and turns them into powerfully told, hard-to-forget novels.   Fifteen year old Lina, her...

We all look for ways to keep kids reading, and in the upper elementary and middle school grades, the struggle is real.  Fortnite is hard...

This book!   Kate Messner, you threw me a curve ball!   I was reading along, chuckling at some of the antics Charlie had gotten...

Are you sometimes surprised a couple of months in to school, to discover that a student doesn't know another student's name?  I ...

Amal is a young girl growing up in the Punjabi province of Pakistan, in a town so small it doesn't even earn a dot on the map.  She is...

As a Reading teacher with a large library, I want to introduce students to my books, but I also want to start reading aloud to them.  Th...

Have you ever done something that you thought would help someone?  Only the thing you did went all wrong?  Maybe, because you hadn't ...