Growing Reader
Goldie Blox Gets Her Own Chapter Book Series, Helping Girls See Themselves as Future Engineers
The new Goldie Blox series paints a clear picture of a girl engineer that all readers can learn from — a character who uses STEM to navigate everyday middle school problems.
Just For Fun
Grown-Up Reads
Four Truths About Reading I Learned from My Children
As author Susan Meissner's kids started picking out what they wanted to read, she found herself learning more about them, and about reading, by the books they chose.
Baby & Toddler
Pre-K
Growing Reader
8 Delightful Children's Books That Celebrate the Joy of Reading
These picture books zero in on the pure joy of storytelling and are just the thing for parents who want to plant and nurture the love of reading in their children.
Tween
Many Gifts Can Come Through Grief, and Sharing Stories Is One
All the knowledge we gain in this life does not come without a price. Some learning comes at great cost. But with great cost comes great growth if you choose to accept it.
Teen
Smothering: Holding Our Kids Close, But Knowing When to Let Go
Nicola Yoon, mom and author of Everything, Everything, shares her hard-fought realization that protecting your child necessarily means letting them go.
Growing Reader
Tween
Teen
7 Books That Help Parents Explain All the Things We Don’t Know How to Explain
For parents out there who are frantically trying to explain why the sky is blue, these remarkable books can help you explain everything from puberty to mortality to all the esoteric things in between.
Tween
10 Thoughtful Novels That Deal with Divorce for Tweens
If you know a middle grade reader who is struggling to understand their parents’ separation or divorce, we hope these books will help them feel a little less alone.
Tween
Ruth Behar on Being Broken and Finding Strength
We chatted with the author of Lucky Broken Girl about her semi-autobiographical novel for middle grade readers and finding the strength to move through life’s obstacles.
Growing Reader
Tween
Brand-New to America and Learning, One Book at a Time
Author and ELL teacher Ruth Freeman shares some of the challenges children learning to read in English encounter and which stories get her students hooked on books.
Just For Fun
I’m Nearing the End of Bedtime Reading with My Daughter and It’s Breaking My Heart
I can feel time creeping up on us. And lately it’s been hitting me in an unexpected location. Bedtime reading.