If you had to leave your home at a moment's notice, what would you take with you? Sidiqa Sidiqi tells NPR's Don Gonyea she concealed her first grade textbooks when she fled Kabul. If you had to leave ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. Check out some of our favorite children's and middle grade books for first-day jitters, making new friends and more Carly Tagen-Dye is ...

Here are the most notable picture and middle grade books, selected by The Times’s children’s books editor. By Jennifer Krauss Rather than follow the Anglocentric pattern of apple, ball and cat, this ...

In these title close-ups, authors and editors share their thoughts on creating books within the burgeoning middle grade subgenre of mythology-inspired fantasy-adventures. For more insights on this ...

There’s a kind of inferiority complex at work in the middle-grade market, which is sometimes perceived as receiving less attention and respect than its YA older sibling (which, in turn, has its own ...

Brian And Tiffany Aske of Oakland, Calif., desperately want their daughter, Ashlyn, to succeed in first grade. That's why they're moving--to Washington State. When they started Ashlyn in kindergarten ...

Containment is the second book in Caryn Lix's Sanctuary series. Former prison guard Kenzie and her friends escaped Sanctuary (barely). But now they are on a stolen alien spaceship. When Kenzie ...

Elaine Hsieh Chou’s latest release is the story collection “Where Are You Really From.” A Southern California native, the ...