☀️ Quiz: What Should the Kids Read Next? ☀️
Quiz: What Should the Kids Read Next?
In this list of historical YA novels, you'll find riveting stories about war, royalty, the quest for freedom, and events that changed history.
From spy thrillers to detective stories, tweens and teens are sure to love these historical fiction audiobooks.
These historical audiobooks transport tweens through time and space, enriching the experience through accents, soundscapes, and multi-cast narration.
These books are great examples of historical fiction that inspire middle grade readers to empathize with characters from other times and places.
These teen books centered on royalty — some pegged to real-life kingdoms and others to crowns of the writers’ inventions — will keep readers riveted.
These books are loved by advanced fifth and sixth grade readers for their unique character voices, complex plots and themes, and high page counts.
Brenda Woods’s new novel for tweens highlights the little-known history of the 761st Tank Battalion, an African American military unit that served during World War II.
In skilled hands, the factual history makes the character’s story feel real, and being immersed in that story makes history come alive for the reader, sometimes in surprising ways. Human emotions are timeless; relationships, social status, age- and gender-appropriate roles and issues are fluid and ever-changing.
Some books make you curious and lead you down a rabbit hole of learning and research — as was most definitely the case when my daughter and I read this one.
The more research I did for my books, the more I kept stumbling upon evidence that history repeats itself — a phrase I thought was nothing more than an overused cliché but found was a frightening reality.
We take a close look at three wonderful, brand-new reads to add to your bookshelf for summer: The Shadow Land, Alex and Eliza, and Drop the Ball.
Learn more about the beauty and wonder of China with these books by Chinese authors, retellings of traditional folktales, and new stories set in China.
What are the best books for 11- and 12-year-olds? Preteens need good books that both resonate with their complex lives as well as educate and entertain them. Our experts selected these 50 excellent titles that appeal to a range of interests, backgrounds, and even moods.
We chatted with Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, the author of The War That Saved My Life, a Newbery Honor book for middle grade readers.
