Lawrence writer Tessa Gratton works on all their books for multiple years, but they’ve been thinking about their newest work, ...

Highland Park native Sara F. Shacter loves middle-grade books, science — particularly biology — and nature. She is also interested in how children are affected by relationships. The author ...

Publisher Floris Books picked ... in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, specialising in Iran and Afghanistan, I already had a solid foundation in the history, culture and political context, but ...

In 1995, UNESCO declared April 23 as World Book Day, a global celebration of ... To honor the occasion, here are six exciting middle-grade releases (ages 8-12) from celebrated authors for 2025 ...

Simon & Schuster Children’s Books has acquired Finn’s Epic Fails, a new middle-grade comedy series from bestselling, multi-award-winning author Phil Earle. Managing director Rachel Denwood ...

parents oppose efforts to remove books from school libraries by a 22-point margin (61% oppose, 39% support), and this view holds true for parents with children of all grade levels: 59% of parents with ...

When I was in seventh grade, I remember ... what do all these books have in common? Simple. They’re all banned. But those books have become something bigger than just an assigned reading during one of ...

In November, a chasm opened in the middle of ... and a shifting political landscape, the predicament is far from resolved. “So today, I’m just going to stick to my books,” she says in ...

Middle-grade authors have the task of writing books that are compelling to young—but maturing—readers while also taking those readers, and their lives and emotions, seriously. Crossover hits ...

Buy Vanishing Treasures, Katherine Rundell (Doubleday) The polymath writer (of acclaimed literary biographies, middle-grade books and hit ... Khader (Beacon Press) A political philosopher traces ...

But these self-serving vehicles shouldn’t indict the larger genre of political autobiography. Truly excellent books have been written about statecraft and power from the inside. And few ...

Check out some of our favorite children's and middle grade books for first-day jitters, making new friends and more Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for ...