The central paradox of Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers, is that the thing that gets Ismae Rienne banished from her fellow Bretons (the scar l...

Lissa Evans At one time, author Lissa Evans produced comedy shows. Comedy is all about timing. The humor must be paced exactly right or ...

Poetry gives us a way to look closely and contemplate deeply things we take for granted. In the Sea by David Elliott, illustrated by Holly ...

Kass Reich accomplishes a great deal in her first board book, Hamsters Holding Hands . As her rhyming text counts up to 10, she establishes ...

George Orwell may have written his novel 1984 in 1949, but his themes of an all-powerful government, the submersion of the individual, and ...

Wonder by R.J. Palacio made me want to be the kind of person who could and would welcome someone like 10-year-old Auggie Pullman and put hi...

Spring is my favorite season. Having grown up in Michigan, we waited patiently, very patiently, for that first golden spray of forsythia to ...