Educator Resources
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
Pre-K
Growing Reader
7 Favorite Books to Read with Grandparents
In honor of Grandparents Day, we asked the Brightly Contributors to share the books their kids have loved reading most with their grandparents.
