Do your teens crave an immersive mystery that also raises important social issues about identity, community and drug addiction? I highly rec...

It might be long nights or drizzly days, but winter strikes me as a perfect time to seek out a mystery. Young readers love solving the crime...

Mysteries are great fun to read -- the suspense keeps you turning the pages. You have to read a mystery pretty carefully to pick up on the c...

"Either you see it or you don't." As you open the heavy novel The Marvels and read this epigraph, you wonder--just what am I ...

As we start looking forward to the beginning of a new school year, I am craving routine in our lives. I love settling down with a read-aloud...

Emerson's 2015 Mock Newbery discussions Like the Newbery Committee, our students have been reading and reading over many months. S...

Today, I have the great pleasure of chatting with Dori Hillestad Butler , author of the new series The Haunted Library . Read on below, bu...

New readers love finding series that make them laugh and bring them back for more adventures. These chapter books fill an important step i...

Today we have something a little different - what I'm hoping is a new regular feature: a chance for some of my favorite kid-testers to i...

OK, time for true confessions. I am gullible. I fall completely into stories and movies, gasping when something awful happens, and never fig...

Kids are NOT patient readers, for the most part. You've got to grab them from the very beginning, introduce the main characters and sett...

I've had a great time this week introducing mysteries to 3rd graders. Reading mysteries is such fun, but it also sharpens your reading s...

Do children want their stories all wrapped up, with easy answers? Or do they like stories that ask the reader to think, that leave us feelin...

If you have a budding sleuth, a mystery lover or perhaps a reluctant reader, you might enjoy trying out a new eBook for the iPad: Nancy Drew...