Five friends at Oak Prairie Junior High School in Homer Glen turned an assignment into a book their teacher called “pretty ...

Marianne Schnall “Why has there never been a woman president?” my 8-year-old daughter, Lotus, asked me in 2008 when Barack Obama became our first Black president. It was such a thought-provoking ...

including total votes each book received and how highly voters ranked each book. Read on to see which classics made the list. Symbols are shapes, signs, or logos that have a meaning that is sometimes ...

Capital Area District Libraries' reading experts share their topic picks for young adult, middle grade and children's books ...

Author Carlos Matias and Ezra Jack Keats Award–winning illustrator Gracey Zhang deliver a stunning picture book based on a ...

Why are Beatrice Sparks’ alarmist books for young adults, which are novels presented as diaries, still described by ...

Child trafficking, the report found, was happening more in high-income countries, particularly among girls. “Criminals are increasingly trafficking people into forced labour, including to coerce ...

Credit: Casetify, Glossier, Kimoli, Stanley / Mashable Composite Trends among teen girls are an ever-changing hellscape. Even millennials — people who are not that old, thank you very much ...

Kaag: What we would do is interview these individuals about their favorite books, about classic works of literature in order to sort of breathe new life into the classics, both literary classics and ...

Four area girls basketball teams, New Braunfels, Canyon, Smithson Valley and Davenport, competed at the third annual Jimmy K Classic from Dec. 5-7. Over the three-day tournament, the Coogs went 2-2, ...