A best-of middle grade book list

Ooh, it’s only November 2 and we’ve already got an end-of-year best-of list, courtesy of Publisher’s Weekly. I want to read everything on here!

Kids need “mirror books”

Cool — a new initiative from the National Education Association Foundation, publishing house Lee & Low Books, and the nonprofit First Book , will provide books for students in low-income

Middle school movie

It is tough to get tweens into theaters these days. They have so much great content right at their fingertips. (Not like my day where I was stuck watching Fraggle

#FirstVote16

YA authors are working to reach young voters in advance of November’s election. Find out about their #FirstVote16 and share your story, too. Not registered yet? Do it! Let’s get everyone

#iLoveMG events & banned book week

Love sharing book recs? Join two #iLoveMG Twitter chats next week. #DiverseMG will be Tuesday, September 27th (8pm EST) and #MGWishIHad is Wednesday, September 28th (8pm EST). Next week (September

Graphic novels’ golden age

I read comics when I was younger, but when I started reading “real” books I didn’t know about the wonderful world of graphic novels. Today’s readers are fortunate, then, that

Books for kids about 9/11

                                  I’m struggling to figure out how to speak to my middle schooler about

#EpiGate

Even non-food allergy families are probably familiar with the recent headlines about the massive price hike of EpiPens (which is being referred to as #EpiGate on social media). The huge backlash

Anne of Green Gables comes to Netflix

L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables is the first book I remember where I had it on my bookshelf in my bedroom forever, tried it a few times, and couldn’t

Allergy dad is a toast-creating superstar

Adam Perry had a problem. His child has food allergies to eggs, dairy and nuts, making breakfast a tricky meal for their household. She’d also had scary reactions to eating unsafe