Very few things please me as a reader more than an unlikely hero who can win me over. There’s nothing much to like about Saba, the narrator ...

There are so few Christmas-themed books aimed at teens, and I’m hard pressed to think of any with the staying power of Katherine Paterson’s ...

The Lleshi family’s story in Katherine Paterson’s novel The Day of the Pelican seems especially appropriate at this Thanksgiving time, when...

Kate DiCamillo has just published her fifth novel, The Magician’s Elephant . She writes two pages a day. She calls that a “manageable, reach...