As literacy rates across all ages show signs of stagnation and decline, we must do all we can to make it easy for young ...

The 17-year-old student said “art saved my life” after conventional therapies failed to help him. “I felt I could talk to a ...

I love a good mystery or thriller. Always have. Sure, there were “The Boxcar Children” and Nancy Drew, but as a ‘90s kid, ...

I know, I was a weird kid. Born during the time when parents bought sets of World Book or Britannica encyclopedias, I was the girl who would sit down and read the dictionaries that came with the set.

This year's long list of National Book Awards for young people's literature has a poetic touch. Five of the 10 nominees announced Tuesday by the National Book Foundation are novels written in verse, ...