William Carlos Williams’ ability both to run a full-time medical practice and also to devote daily time to his writing is one of the things ...

Here on Lake Michigan, where I’m spending the week with five nieces and nephews under the age of eight, you can already see peer pressure at...

The beauty of Sarah Dessen’s analogy of bike-riding in Along for the Ride is that—up to this summer—Auden West has accomplished everything ...

One of the things I like best about Rebecca Stead’s novel When You Reach Me is the way the heroine, Mira, loves A Wrinkle in Time . The way...

Peter Brown’s The Curious Garden took me right back to my own first experiences with soil and seeds. My father is the gardener in our famil...

Every summer when we were small, my mother would take my brother, Chip, and me blueberry picking. If you shop for blueberries in August in a...

After I read The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly, I started thinking about gender roles at the turn of the 20th century (wh...