Basketball season is just about to start, and eleven-year-old Laurie Bird Preston doesn’t want to move to a new town. But her dad has just accepted a new job as the girls’ basketball coach in the middle school in his old hometown,... Read More

The worst part of any diet is feeling deprived when favorite foods are forbidden. Knowing this, Bauer, a registered dietitian, developed the 90/10 Food Plan to meet the needs of her clients. Bauer recommends that ten percent of daily... Read More

The Greeks called them “amphibia,” meaning, “living two lives.” Visitors to wetland areas are familiar with frogs, toads, and salamanders, which begin their lives in the water and move to land as adults, and kids have always been... Read More

It’s scary being a teenager, but it’s scarier being the parent of a teenager. Parents want to protect their kids from dangers, the very things that kids can’t wait to experience. None of the temptations are new, and the risks... Read More

There seems to be three kinds of schools in America today—bad, good enough, and excellent. Parents in search of the excellent school know to avoid the bad, but probably have their children enrolled in a good enough school. Merrow... Read More

Boxes of family photographs may invite conflicting feelings of joy and guilt—how to assemble all of those pictures in a meaningful way for the entire family to enjoy? Julian’s new book will inspire the scrapbook enthusiast regardless... Read More

Young children can’t wait to learn to read and write. The literacy activities in Hauser’s book will “make reading happen,” through a variety of activities. Written with kid appeal, the activities and games are presented by... Read More

Experience the desert at night. “Day is done. Twilight comes. The sun goes down and streaks the clouds with flame.“ As the heat of the day fades and the sky darkens, the reader meets the inhabitants of the nighttime desert-the bats,... Read More