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Grown-Up Reads

5 Books to Help You Raise Happy, Thoughtful Tweens and Teens

These five books offer great food for thought as well as practical tips for how to support tweens as they grow into independent, happy, and successful contributors to the world.

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Just For Fun

How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love My Patronus

I took the test. I clicked on answers as quickly as I could. I tried to give the answers that best reflected my inner self. And then... Wait, what?

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Tips & Advice

I Read Banned Books and So Do My Kids

In most areas of my life, I’m a rule-follower, but when it comes to books, I’m a subversive.

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Growing Reader

Delivering the Punch Line: The Sheer Delight of Reading Funny Books with Your Kids

When I don’t have the time or energy to be funny at home, I just take funny off the bookshelf. One of the best things about funny books is that they can be funny more than once!

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Tween

The 50 Best Books for 9- and 10-Year-Olds

What are the best books to keep 9-year-olds and 10-year-olds reading, learning, and coming back for more? We asked the experts to find out.

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Grown-Up Reads

3 Buzzed-About Books That Are Definitely Worth Your Time

In an attempt to save you precious time, we've scoured the new releases to pick out three new grown-up books worthy of your reading minutes.

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Baby & Toddler
Pre-K

How Board Books Help Kids Develop Emotional Intelligence

Board books offer most young readers their first literary introductions to lessons in emotional intelligence — and these early lessons can last a lifetime!

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Grown-Up Reads

Learning to Breathe Deep: Jewel on Never Broken, Motherhood, and Pursuing Happiness

We were thrilled to chat with the multi-talented star about her childhood in Alaska, how writing has served as a kind of therapy for her, readers’ responses to her memoir, and the kids' books her son adores.

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Grown-Up Reads
Tips & Advice

Tell Your Kids Stories — They May Just Remember Them Forever

My dad’s made-up stories were a source of joy to me throughout my childhood, adding a touch of magic to the realities of our long-distance connection. They remain one of my favorite memories of childhood.

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Growing Reader
Tween

Great Minds Don’t Think Alike: The Real-Life Inspiration Behind Fish in a Tree

Lynda Mullaly Hunt shares the learning difficulties she faced as a young student and how she overcame the feeling that "the other kids were just better."