White Cat by Holly Black is all about the experience of adolescence as a solo journey. All of the members of Cassel Sharpe’s family were bo...

Rick Riordan has zeroed in on my two favorite topics when I was in school: Greek myths (with his Percy Jackson and the Olympians series) an...

Zig and Wikki in Something Ate My Homework by Nadja Spiegelman , illustrated by Trade Loeffler , perfectly captures the sense of wonder ...

Nothing takes the edge off a long car ride like a singalong. Last week, my two-year-old niece, Maggie, was petering out near the end of a th...

Many of us turned to books when we couldn’t turn to our peers or our parents. If you’ve read through my list of Twenty Classics for teens, y...

I was 13 when I first visited Walden Pond. It was 1976, the Bicentennial, and my father had a professional conference to attend in Boston. H...

When children can't make sense of a word they hear, they will often substitute a different word that does make sense to them. But, let’s...