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Growing Reader

Tween

Brightly's Book Club for Kids: Nightmares!

This middle grade novel by Jason Segel and Kirsten Miller is an enthralling adventure filled with ghoulish fun and great lessons that you won’t be able to put down.

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Growing Reader

Tween

7 of the Best Books About Bullying, According to Kids

Tweens highly recommend these books as being both engaging and providing practical lessons on dealing with bullies in everyday life.

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Tween

10 of the Best Books About the Great Depression for Tweens

These excellent books set during the Great Depression have lessons to impart to middle grade readers, along with rip-roaring tales to tell.

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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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Pre-K

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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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

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."

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Tween

Reading Strategies and Book Suggestions for Struggling Readers

How can you help an older child who struggles with reading? Here you’ll find go-to strategies plus great book suggestions that are at a lower reading level yet still interesting to kids.

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Growing Reader

Tween

Helping Kids See Beyond Their Failures: A Chat with Fish in a Tree Author Lynda Mullaly Hunt

We chatted with Lynda Mullaly Hunt about her own struggles with reading as a child, the real-life teacher who changed her perception of herself and her path forward, and what we can all learn from our encounters with failure.

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Tween

Do You Know How Much I Love You? One Mom’s Journey Raising a Child with Bipolar Disorder

Loving someone who deals with a brain illness is one of the greatest challenges I’ve ever had to face as a mother, a wife, or an individual.

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