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Brightly's Monthly Themes

Nothing brings families together quite like story time, so Brightly encourages parents and young readers alike to dive into books surrounding a particular theme each month.

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Baby & Toddler

Board Books That Inspire Strength and Resilience

These board books can help fill our babies and toddlers with emotional strength and the conviction that they can do hard things, persevere, and ultimately succeed.

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Pre-K

Picture Books to Help Raise Resilient Kids

From inspirational true stories to characters with grit, these books are excellent resources for encouraging resilience in young kids.

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Growing Reader

Books on Resilience for Growing Readers Ages 6 - 8

These books on resilience for 6- to 8-year-old readers highlight that determination, adaptability, and perseverance can change the world.

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Tween

13 Books With Resilient Role Models for Tweens

Here are 13 middle grade reads spanning multiple genres that offer excellent models of resilience in action. Plus, they are all page-turning stories that readers won’t want to put down!

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Teen

14 YA Books That Teach Teens Resilience

These 14 books for teens help them see different facets of resilience — and in particular, how it’s a muscle that they can grow and develop.

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Baby & Toddler

Books on Love for Babies & Toddlers

We’ve collected some of our favorite books about love for the babies and toddlers in your life. You can save them for Valentine’s Day, but we encourage you to start reading them right away because we can always use a little more love.

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Pre-K

9 Books on Love for Kids Ages 3 – 5

From the unbreakable bond between family members to the kindness and adoration found through friendship, the stories below exemplify the uplifting power of one of our strongest emotions.

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Growing Reader

10 Books About Love for Growing Readers Ages 6 – 8

These books on love for kids ages 6 - 8 offer an opportunity to talk to children about positive affirmations, self-confidence, self-care, and self-love.

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Tween

10 Middle Grade Books That Celebrate the Many Types of Love

From crushes to friendship, familial bonds to devotion to a pet, these middle grade novels will have kids thinking about what it means to really connect.

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Teen

16 YA Books on Love

For teens just starting to dream about finding their person and all that it entails, YA books about love offer a glimpse of what’s to come — from the light, funny, and sweet to the heartrendingly tragic.

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Baby & Toddler

Inspiring Books on Hope for Babies and Toddlers

These books on hope will fill your little reader's shelves with possibility - the possibility of a better and brighter future.

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