I'm pleased to have Sam Maggs on the blog today, author of Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed Hist...

Every year the Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti district libraries choose one book for a program they call Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Reads . The purpose ...

I am thrilled to have debut author Rebecca Behrens here on the blog for a guest post about her new middle grade book, When Audrey Met Alice ...

On Friday Lenore Appelhans , author of Level 2 now renamed The Memory of After , sent me an email with this picture in it: What's th...

A tweet from John Green earlier this morning was the first news I heard of E.L. Konigsburg's passing. This is incredibly sad news f...

Last year during World Read Aloud Day my 6th graders paired up with their 3rd grade buddies and I read to them Audrey Vernick's new...

Many schools in the metro Detroit area were closed on Tuesday and Wednesday due to bitter cold temperatures. Our school, however, remained o...

I don't know if anyone's noticed from the lack of activity on my blog as of late, but this has been an especially tiring year for me...

Disclaimer: I have to immediately apologize for my lack of articulateness and overuse of superlatives like amazing, awesome, and ins...

Last year Carrie Harris, author of the epically funny Bad Taste in Boys and the soon-to-be released Bad Hair Day , came to visit my 6th g...