“Later! It’s always later,” yells Emily as she stomps outside and slams the door shut. Dad promised they’d make snow animals, but his work always seems to come first. This scenario may seem familiar to many parents. Emily, angry... Read More

Celebrating a decade in print, this lovely anniversary edition of In Flanders Fields: The Story of the Poem by John McCrae tells the famous wartime poem and the stories behind it. The author weaves lines of the poem (“In Flanders... Read More

Being a parent is the toughest job you’ll ever love. When you’re a stepparent, the job can be even harder. The more relationships there are to navigate within a family, the more chances for misunderstandings, resentments, and... Read More

Animals in the wild frolic lustily, romping over rocks and traipsing through the woods. Zoo animals, especially those in too-small spaces, pace endlessly out of boredom, tracing the same path inside a fence. These were the images that... Read More

During World War I, the Turkish government abandoned Armenians in the Syrian Desert. More than one million died from malnutrition and other causes. "Daughter of War" describes the circumstances of three characters struggling to reunite... Read More

A luscious watermelon slice on a blue-green background forms the hard-to-resist cover of "One Watermelon Seed". Once enticed inside, the reader will discover a brightly colored celebration of both gardening and counting. Max and... Read More

As early as the 1600s, horse owners in England and Ireland raced each other across open country using a distant church as a goal post. This tradition that became known as the steeplechase, is one of many facts explained in this book... Read More

Is it a longing for order, ethnic magnetism, or adolescent xenophobia that makes high school lunchrooms such showcases for segregation—or is that “niche societies? At "Bifocal"‘s Central Secondary, a high school in an unnamed... Read More