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Grown-Up Reads

How Losing Ourselves in Stories Can Help Us Find Our Greater Truths

Rhiannon Navin wasn’t planning on featuring a beloved kids’ book series in Only Child, her novel about a boy coping with trauma. Yet, the more she progressed, the more it made sense.

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Tween

Teen

FanFic Is Big with Teens and Tweens: Here’s What Parents and Educators Need to Know

While there’s much for kids to like, even love, about fanfiction, there can be a dark side to it as well. Here's what parents and educators should know.

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Tween

Subverting Enchantment

Emily Winfield Martin, author of Snow & Rose, explores two different paths to fairy tale retellings: the Winking and the Sincere. The choice is an important one.

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Just For Fun

A Love Letter to Bookshops

Bookshops are a gateway to another world. There is nothing like the tingle of expectation as you step over the threshold.

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Growing Reader

Tween

How to Make a Zine: A Kid-Friendly DIY Guide

Follow along with these simple instructions and you'll be creating a zine in no time — the perfect craft project for children looking to express their creativity!

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Tween

8 Ways to Prevent Tweens from Backsliding This Summer

You can prevent dreaded summer learning loss by keeping your kids’ brains engaged throughout the summer. Here’s how.

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Tween

Many Gifts Can Come Through Grief, and Sharing Stories Is One

All the knowledge we gain in this life does not come without a price. Some learning comes at great cost. But with great cost comes great growth if you choose to accept it.

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Tween

Seawater in the Veins and Words in the Heart: A Q&A with Lauren Wolk

Lauren Wolk, author of Wolf Hollow and Beyond the Bright Sea, chatted with us about her books' vibrant settings and characters, and shared the books she's loved reading most with her family.

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Just For Fun

Tips & Advice

Why Dictionaries Still Matter for Kids Today

Yes, online references make homework easier and faster for kids, but there is a case to be made for meandering through the alphabet with a print dictionary.

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Just For Fun

Grown-Up Reads

Partners in Crime: 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.

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Grown-Up Reads

How the Urgency of Motherhood Made Me a Writer

Rachel Starnes shares how the recent publication of her first book, a memoir of her marriage and journey into parenthood, has afforded her the opportunity to reflect on the role of writing in her life.

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Pre-K

Growing Reader

Tween

Helping Kids Think Like Writers: A Talk with Frindle Author Andrew Clements

Andrew Clements has dozens of titles to his name, from picture books to novels to early reader chapter books, including Frindle, a middle grade novel about the power of language and invention.

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