Out of My Mind

If you ask me, Thanksgiving is all about comfort: from the apple pie to the parade to the family time to the stretchy pants to accommodate all that delicious food. While YA novels deal with a lot of darkness, from lost love to dystopian tyranny, there are plenty of YA books that just makes you […]

In recent years, the children’s book industry has seen increased pressure from readers for books that truly reflect all parts of our society. With that has come a slow emergence of characters in middle grade who experiences the same highs and lows of adolescence, the same challenges of middle school, and the same beginning and ending […]

Author Rob Buyea’s Because of Mr. Terupt, along with its sequels, Mr. Terupt Falls Again and Saving Mr. Terupt, immerse young readers in a middle school classroom filled with characters they’ll both recognize and relate to—from the new girl, to the bully, to the outcast—all of whom are navigating their way through the complicated, often painful world of adolescence. Buyea was a teacher […]

Sharon M. Draper is a children’s book author to know. She’s an award-winning educator and author of books for kids and teens. She’s a five-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Literary Awards and in 2015 she received the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime literary achievement from the American Library Association. So definitely a […]