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The Best New Audiobooks to Listen to as a Family This Month
If you’re looking for great new audiobooks for your kids to listen to this month, I’ve picked some in several age categories, plus a bonus one for grown-ups.
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The Best Children's and YA Books of March 2018
Among the month's standouts for kids and teens are rich, compelling narratives that beg to be read in long binges, while curled up under a blanket, and bright, effervescent stories that sparkle with the promise of spring.
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5 Teacher-Recommended Tips for Exploring Current Events With Your Students
I asked real-life teachers to share tips for reflecting with students on what they hear in the news. Here’s what they suggested.
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A Sneak Peek at Some of the Rad Girls Shaping Our Future
Rad Girls Can shows us the potential and the power of young, creative, hopeful, brilliant girls, and all that they can do in this world.
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10 of the Most Memorable Siblings in Middle Grade Literature
Celebrate Siblings Day on April 10 with these middle grade books about the ups and downs of sibling relationships: the fierce love, the turtle-eating, and everything in between.
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Chris Grabenstein and Russell Ginns Make the Case for Puzzle-Filled Kids’ Books
These two fantastic authors know a lot about books that pull tweens into the action and keep them guessing right until the very end.
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9 Valentines to the Books My Family Will Always Love
These are some of the books that remind me of times in my sons’ lives and call up specific memories I don’t want to forget. For that, each deserves a short appreciation — in the form of a love poem.
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The Best Children's and YA Books of February 2018
From stories about inspiring trailblazers to timely tales of inclusion and compassion, there’s plenty of great new books to keep young readers feeling warm on the inside this month.
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Role Models in Science Fiction? My Daughters Asked Where They Were
It was a weeknight and one of my twin daughters, who was in middle school at the time, had marched into the room, brandishing a book she’d finished. “Why are books with science in them always about boys?” she wanted to know.
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17 Authors on the Children's Books That Still Make Them Weepy
We know children’s literature is full of wonderful tearjerkers, so we asked 17 authors to share the book from childhood that still makes them well up to this day. Here are the stories that hold special places in their hearts.
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A Vote for the Human Spirit: Paul Griffin on Being Good to Each Other and Our Animal Friends
Paul Griffin, author of Saving Marty, shares the real-life inspiration for Marty the pig and the unique way in which animals remind us of what's truly important in life.
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The Best Children's and YA Books of January 2018
From an adventure at sea to a twisted boarding school thriller to a beautiful rumination on love, there's lots to excite and delight in the early days of 2018.
