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Pre-K
Growing Reader

Listen Up! 3 Kid-Friendly Activities To Build Listening Skills

How can we help our chatty children understand that too much talking can get in the way of collaborating with those around them? Start with these fun, kid-friendly activities.

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Tips & Advice

Simple Ways to Build a Reading Routine Your Busy Family Can Enjoy

Fostering a love of reading in your child can be extremely helpful as they grow and learn — but it can be challenging to find time in overcrowded schedules. Here are some easy steps you can take to encourage yourself and your kids to make time for reading.

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Pre-K
Growing Reader
Tween

Jennifer L. Holm’s Most Fantastic, Fun-Filled Kids’ Books

Whether you gravitate towards historical fiction, graphic novels, or something in between, you’ll adore these highlights from Jennifer L. Holm’s enormous collection of books.

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Tween

How Growing Up in a Ghost Town Inspired a Novel

The best ghost towns are full of stories, discoveries, mysteries, and possibilities — and that’s exactly what I found in the ghost town where I grew up.

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Tween

9 Books for Tweens That Weave Spanish Into Their Narratives

Books that deftly incorporate Spanish into their storylines are perfect for tweens looking to discover a small piece of home in their next read or who simply want to learn some Spanish as they flip the pages.

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Tween

Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson Discuss We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices

Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson’s new anthology features poems, essays, letters, art, and more, all part of a collective message of love designed to empower young readers.

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Tween
Teen

The Great Library Series Turned My Tween Son Into a Reader

I brought home book after book in the hope that something would pique my son’s interest and nothing ever did ... They sat in the living room completely untouched.

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Tween

Tight Is a Reflection of Real-Life Kids and the Settings They Know

Kids will love the books if the books love them. I have taught middle school for nearly 20 years and I feel that is true. My dream as a teacher is my dream as an author: to provide books for kids to love, books that will love kids back, and to share stories that help them see things as more complex.

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Pre-K
Growing Reader

Bookshelf Must-Have: The Day You Begin

In Jacqueline Woodson and Rafael López’s The Day You Begin, a little girl finds the strength to tell her story, and when she does, both the beauty of her experience and the commonalities she shares with her peers begin to shine.

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Pre-K
Growing Reader

Brightly Storytime: Waiting for the Biblioburro

Read along with Waiting for the Biblioburro, a beautiful picture book inspired by Luis Soriano Bohorquez, the real-life traveling librarian who brings books to children across Colombia.