California has made progress in third-grade reading proficiency, but needs to accelerate the pace to meet the demands of the ...

Home for the holidays, best-selling author Catherine Lanigan is looking forward to cooking Thanksgiving dinner with her family in LaPorte. She also will talk Saturday about her books and how to get ...

It gave us the Grabber ( Ethan Hawke ), a mysterious kidnapper and killer of young boys with a stunningly memorable mask. He ...

You just know that after spending 16 years as a defense attorney and another 12 years on the bench, retired Pima County Superior Court Judge Barbara Sattler has some stories to tell. But when she sat ...

Readers on TikTok and Instagram are making the aesthetics of reading more visible than ever with creative, and often intricate, annotations. Called marginalia, these markups can be elaborate, with ...

And The Lowdown stinks to high heaven. Like his acclaimed Reservation Dogs, Sterlin Harjo’s new comedy noir for FX is a lovingly realized tale of a small community writ large. It’s also a personal ...

When it comes to helping our kids cope through tragedy, there is no "perfect science," but a Valley-based author is hoping her books can serve as a starting point for some of these important ...

Have you ever read a book and thought, "Women's bodies don't really work like that" or "I've never seen a woman actually do anything like this"? Well, you wouldn't be alone. For most of history, ...

Something clicked in Douglas Boneparth’s head at a conference when a global bank executive told some attendees that the biggest problem the bank was having involved spouses of newly deceased ...

Librarian Sondra Eklund spends her time stocking books for the public library system she works for in Virginia. One of her patrons recently asked the library to acquire a children’s book about pets ...

I used to think mentor texts were just something you pulled off the shelf during writing time. But once I started using them intentionally—really slowing down and showing students how authors craft ...

Louis Sachar, the author of Holes and the Wayside School series, has spent nearly half a century writing books for kids. And he was originally going to continue that streak with his new novel, The ...