As many of you know, we are very big friends with librarian Melissa Jackson at Ballou Sr High School in Washington DC. Melissa has done an...

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Imagine a novel by the love child of H. G. Wells and Mary Shelley, one that rounds out the werewolf-sized hole in the pantheon of 19th Cent...

Something happens to boys around the age of thirteen. For some its the physical transformations of puberty, the ungainly growth, the crack...

I have a special subgenre of books that I call “gutwrench” books. This subgenre is reserved for books that litera...

Much of technology reporting is a kind of cheerleading. Isn't the Internet amazing? Look at all the stuff we can do! Look how fast we...

Last month, I learned of the extremely cool story A Stray in the Woods by Alison Wilgus , thanks to a tweet and corresponding Instagram ...

This is one of those books filled with so much fascinating yet disgusting information that you can't help but read parts out loud to oth...

All Nate Foster wants is to see his name in lights on Broadway. Or to see a Broadway show. But he's stuck in his small Pennsylvania home...

A couple of days ago I came across an article about a science kit that allows kids to turn cockroaches into iPhone-Controlled cyborgs . My ...