Veteran teacher gives valuable lessons to rookies on what to really expect in the classroom trenches. Teacher preparation programs across the country impart future educators with the latest theories on how to teach state and national... Read More

Journalist and sufferer himself joins man with Tourette’s on astounding journey to find a medical miracle for “the funhouse mirror of maladies.” Tourette syndrome affects an estimated three million people in the United States... Read More

In her series debut, Faith Reese Martin not only shows young readers that history is still relevant today but that it can be downright magical. Unlike her archaeologist parents, twelve-year-old Margaret “Jinx” MacKenzie does not see... Read More

Zeina Abirached’s evocative memoir, translated from French and told in a graphic novel format, opens with an attractive skyline of East Beirut in 1984. As the perspective zooms in, the initial beauty gives way to empty streets, windows... Read More

Loosely based on Lindsay Baker’s own childhood in Christchurch, New Zealand, in the early 1960s, this lighthearted, debut chapter book features an unnamed, typical ten-year-old boy who narrates the story and enjoys playing pranks on... Read More

Parents, caregivers, and teachers will immediately warm to the plethora of concepts—from animals and seasons to rhymes and adjectives—that Slither Slide, What’s Outside? offers their young children. Preschoolers, however, will... Read More

Little Johnny, almost four years old, would rather run around naked than keep his clothes on. Who can blame the active boy when he spends most of his day on a tropical island where the sun smiles down on him and the ocean waves from his... Read More

“Green way before it became the new black,” author, hospice nurse, and mother Kenna Lee always felt she was one step ahead of recycling, reducing, and reusing until the birth of her third child. Suddenly plagued with guilt for... Read More