A bit of Inkheart with a touch of Harry Potter?  I'm in, ready to keep reading and many of your students will be, too! I was sucked in f...

  I remember walking into the library with my kids when they were young.  My son was maybe 8 or 9 and he headed right to the nonfiction sect...

  I was talking to a teacher friend recently, and she told me a funny story about listening to a first grader lead his class in the Pledge o...

  Have you read Free Lunch by Rex Ogle?  It's a powerful tale about the stigma of growing up in poverty and learning that your parents...

The past few years have affected our kids' reading and this summer may have you concerned.  Does your child, or do your students need to...

You want your kids to have fun this summer, but you also don't want them to fall any further behind.  There are easy - and fun - activit...

 Where did Dusti Bowling, the author, come up with this tremendously readable idea? Aven was born "unarmed."  At home in Kansas, w...