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Grown-Up Reads
Tips & Advice

How to Promote Healthy Social and Emotional Skills During the Pandemic

There are steps caregivers can take at home to help kids through this difficult time. Try out these ideas to promote social and emotional health in your home.

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Grown-Up Reads
Tips & Advice

How to Help Teens Choose the Right College

The authors of The College Conversation recommend parents, caregivers, and students align the qualities of a prospective college or university with what matters most to them as individuals — providing a rubric and helpful conversation starters.

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All Ages

9 Fun Halloween Ideas for Kids That Go Beyond Trick-or-Treating

You can still have a memorable October 31st this year! Here are some fresh and festive ways to celebrate Halloween while staying safe and healthy. 

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Baby & Toddler

7 Books on Bravery for Babies & Toddlers

These seven books showcase a variety of ways real-life people, pets, and characters demonstrate bravery in everyday life. 

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Pre-K
Growing Reader

Tips for Setting Up Your Classroom Library for Success

Setting up a classroom library with an appealing and user-friendly collection of books goes a long way towards helping kids enjoy reading. These tips can help set you up for success.

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Pre-K

11 Books About Bravery for Kids Ages 3 – 5

The stories on this list are full of brave characters — from bears to superheroes to spunky preschool kids themselves — perfect for showing 3- to 5-year-olds that bravery comes in all shapes and sizes.

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Growing Reader

Books on Bravery for Kids Ages 6 – 8

These 10 stories will inspire and encourage kids to be brave.

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Tween

12 Middle Grade Books That Celebrate Bravery

These 12 kid-approved stories with brave and heroic characters span genres — including contemporary fiction, historical fiction, adventure, and nonfiction.

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Teen

11 YA Books on Courage and Bravery

Being brave can be as simple as being who you really are – which, perhaps not surprisingly, is a common theme in some of today’s best YA.

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Pre-K

Vanessa Roeder’s The Box Turtle Is the Lesson in Resilience We All Need

A lesson in resilience, The Box Turtle is a great example for little readers to look to when their confidence is a little shaky.