Grown-Up Reads
What Happened When I Put Designing Your Life to Work for Me
At a career crossroads, one mom works through Bill Burnett and Dave Evans's bestselling Designing Your Life, a unique book that uses design thinking to help its readers find fulfillment in their lives.
Tween
A Good Scare: How Horror Books Can Help Kids Conquer Their Fears
It’s confidence-building to be bold and conquer the things that frighten us — and a scary book can help kids do just that.
Growing Reader
Tween
Listen Up: 3 New Audiobooks Your Kids Will Love
These three new audiobooks are standouts for their awesome stories, entertaining narration, and enormous kid-appeal. Give them a listen with your growing reader or tween today.
Teen
12 of the Most Irresistible Bad Boys and Girls in YA
Let's be honest, imperfect people are fun to read about. From characters with a dangerous side to serious villains, here are some of the best baddies in YA.
Tween
4 Simple Tips for Surviving Your Kids’ Tween Years
Amy Cooper Hakim, Ph.D., an industrial-organizational psychology practitioner, helps people at work to get along. When her kids started acting up, she adapted some workplace tactics to ensure that her family could get along better too.
Just For Fun
Grown-Up Reads
The Dark and Twisty Adventures of a Crime Fiction Writer and His Daughter
David Mark shares the joys of having his tween daughter accompany him on (sometimes grisly) adventures in the name of book research.
Pre-K
Growing Reader
Tween
Teen
New Reads to Celebrate Black History Month
From illustrated biographies to seldom-seen profiles to stunning prose, these stories help bring Black history to life for kids.
Tips & Advice
Building a World of Empathy Through the Simple Yet Profound Act of Reading Aloud
Reading aloud can provide a pathway for a child to build an empathetic life. By reading together, and talking about different characters, ideas, and themes, we can help create a sense of self-awareness and an awareness of others.
Just For Fun
The Special Place Laura Ingalls Wilder Holds in My Own Little House
Opening up Little House in the Big Woods to read aloud to my daughter was like reliving my childhood all over again — except this time I was the mom, watching someone else discover this world I loved.
Tween
Bookshelf Must-Have: Flying Lessons & Other Stories
From basketball games to first crushes to female pirates and even Bigfoot, there's something for every middle grade reader in Flying Lessons & Other Stories, a short story collection that celebrates and honors what makes us unique.