Now a National Book Award-winning writer, Hautman passes his love of dogs to middle-grade readers in his new novel “Answers to Dog,” a tender story featuring Evan, a mildly depressed eighth ...

Middle-grade books embrace a wonderful range of stories, the best of which enable children to explore and celebrate human rights and the values that underpin them, such as freedom of expression, ...

Nicholas Dames has taught Literature Humanities, Columbia University’s required great-books course ... Center survey of about 300 third-to-eighth-grade educators, only 17 percent said they ...

We science fiction fans are going to have our work cut out for us to make it through all the riches on offer this month. There are at least four books published in October that are must-reads for ...

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