“Developing both of those languages well is very important for immigrants and for any kids of color," said Cynthia Garcia Coll, Brown University professor and developmental psychologist.
"When I first came, I was scared. There were many people from different countries, talking in their native languages, and like I didn’t really understand what’s going on."
Young journalists typically begin work on a radio project with enthusiasm and a basic idea for a
story.
But where can they go for help to rein in an idea, find the right interviewees, develop questions
or refocus a story idea that didn’t go in the direction planned?
Lois Lowry has been writing fiction for more than 35 years. She’s created tales of dystopian societies that continue to trigger parental outrage, but she’s also produced fits of giggles from middle readers tickled by Gooney Bird...
Do you know what an emirp is? I do because I read the book “Pick Me Up” from DK Publishing. It is a book with a whole bunch of information about a wide variety of topics.
In our changing world, where images from around the globe come to us from all directions, diversity is the norm rather than the exception. It is hard to imagine a world where nothing diverges or varies, but such a world exists in Lois...
Ever wonder who invented duct tape? Do you catch yourself thinking about who the first comic strip superhero was? Then “109 Forgotten American Heroes” is for you! With its colorful and creative backgrounds, this book definitely caught...
Exciting and action packed, this historical novel makes you want to keep reading because you never know what will happen next. Two 13-year-olds wander around Brooklyn and Manhattan, spying, chasing and healing people.
S ummer gives kids a chance to stay up late, play in the sun and catch up on their leisure reading -- or maybe not. A survey of Y-Press members found that some look at summer as a chance to read as much as they can, while others are just...
Those poor Baudelaire orphans never seem to get a break, and kids never seem to get enough of their awful adventures. In September, "The Grim Grotto" was released, finding the Baudelaires again in trouble, this time of a watery variety. As...
Approximately 5,000 Chinese children are adopted by U.S. citizens every year. One of those children not only was able to revisit her roots in China but also wrote a book about it. Ten-year-old Ying Ying Fry wrote "Kids Like Me in China"...
Indiana schools and libraries have long sought ways to encourage children to read for pleasure. Every year since 1974, the Indiana Library Federation has sponsored the Young Hoosier Book Award program, which gives students in kindergarten...
Many people never get the chance to leave their mark on the world. Nineteen-year-old Ned Vizzini already has. While Vizzini was growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., he did not spend his spare time watching television. Instead, he wrote essays,...
Imagine a school where you learn only of the magic world, and so-called "essential" classes, such as math and reading, are not taught. Instead, you're instructed on divination, potions and Muggle history. Welcome to the world of Harry...
Clifton Bush always wanted to write a book, but he never had the
time. When his wife, Karen, offered to run their business,
Indianapolis Flag and Banner Co., Bush finally had his chance. At age 61, he published The Third Prophecy. Age,...
The Third Prophecy Author: Clifton Bush Publisher: Fabco Inc. Price: $14.95 Pages: 243 By Nick Blandford; 13; Children's Express The Third Prophecy is a snowball of a book by local author Clifton
Bush. It starts slow but gains momentum as...
Singer to the Sea God Author: Vivien Alcock. Publisher: Yearling Books. Price: Paperback, $3.99. Pages: 199. Singer to the Sea God is exciting, creative and fast-moving in
most places. Vivien Alcock has a smooth-as-cream writing style...
How to Get Rid of Your Older Brother
Author: Joel L. Schwartz.
Publisher: Dell Publishing.
Price: $3.25 (paperback).
Pages: 120. Have you ever had problems with a bullying older brother or
sister? If you have, this book is perfect for...
Spell it M-U-R-D- E-R
Author: Ivy Ruckman.
Pages: 150.
Price: $3.50 (paperback).
Publisher: Skylark Books. Spell it M-U-R-D-E-R is 150 pages of twists and turns, good for
those who like surprises. The story begins when two girls, Katy...
The Nickel Plated Beauty Author: Patricia Beatty. Publisher: Morrow Junior Books. Price: $15 (hardcover). Pages: 255. In 1886 people really helped one another. In The Nickel Plated
Beauty, author Patricia Beatty does a good job of telling...
Bridie of the Wild Rose Inn Author: Jennifer Armstrong. Publisher: Bantam Books. Price: $3.99, paperback. Pages: 178. Do you like historical fiction? If so you will want to read Bridie
of the Wild Rose Inn. The events of this story...
Spell It M-U-R-D-E-R Author: Ivy Ruckman Publisher: Skylark Books Pages: 150 Price: $3.50 (paperback) Spell It M-U-R-D-E-R is 150 pages of twists and turns, good for
those who like surprises. The story begins when the two girls, Katy...
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
Author: Chris Crutcher.
Publisher: Greenwillow Books.
Pages: 216.
Price: $14. How far would you go for your best friend? Would you risk your
life? This kind of unselfish friendship exists between Eric...
Thunder Rolling in the Mountains Authors: Scott O'Dell and Elizabeth Hall. Publisher: Dell Publishing. Pages: 128. Price: $3.99, paperback. Thunder Rolling in the Mountains is a true story based on the
hardships of the Nez Perce, an...
Montana 1948 Author: Larry Watson.
Publisher: Milkweed Editions.
Pages: 175.
Price: $17.95, hardcover. Sometimes realizing that adults are less than perfect is hard to
deal with. Such is the case with David Hayden in the book titled
...
Somewhere in the Darkness
Author: Walter Dean Meyers
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 168
Price: $14.95 Aman walks the streets of a New York City neighborhood and tries
to ignore the pain in the leg that he drags behind him....
`They're from my life. All my ideas are from my life," said Gary
Paulsen, referring to where he gets the ideas for his books. Looking at the trials and antics in Paulsen's 54 years, it's
easy to understand why his novels are so popular,...
Nightjohn
Author: Gary Paulsen.
Publisher: Delacorte.
Price: $14.
Pages: 92. `It was a holocaust. It was every bit as bad as what happened to
Jews in Europe, and nobody acknowledges it, " said author Gary
Paulsen about slavery in...
Baby Author: Patricia MacLachlan. Publisher: Delacorte Press. Pages: 132. Price: $13.95. In Baby, author Patricia MacLachlan shows the real meaning of love
in a family and how to express the loss of a loved one. She shows the
reader what...
Lady Daisy Author: Dick King Smith. Publisher: Delacorte Press. Price: $14. Pages: 131. Imagine that one day you and your little brother go to your
grandmother's house and start looking in her attic. You leave to
get something and soon...
Hey Little Walter and Other Prize-winning Plays from the 1989 and
1990 Young Playwrights Festivals
Author: Edited by Wendy Lamb - Introduction by Nancy Quinn
Publisher: Dell Publishing
Pages: 236 Ever finish reading a book and find...
When author Norma Fox Mazer was a teen-ager, she felt very
different from other kids her age. "I felt very frightened of the
world and what was ahead of me," she said. "I don't think they were
all kept tucked away down inside." But now...
BOOK REVIEW
Bright Days, Stupid Nights
Author: Norma Fox Mazer and Harry Mazer.
Pages: 194.
Publisher: Bantam Books.
Cost: $16, hardcover. Bright Days, Stupid Nights tells the realistic yet humorous story
of the relationships between...
Living in Secret
Author: Christina Salat.
Publisher: Bantam.
Pages: 183.
Price: $15. Living in Secret is an intriguing and fast-paced book about the
secret life of Amy Monet, a confused 11-year-old. The book is an
adventure and...
One More River
Author: Lynne Reid Banks.
Publisher: Morrow Junior Books, reprinted, 1992.
Pages: 243.
Price: $14 (hardback). One More River is a dried-up novel about a spoiled girl named Lesley
Shelby growing up in Saskatchewan,...
God, Country, Notre Dame
Author: Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C.
Pages: 331.
Publisher: Doubleday.
Price: $21.95 (hardback). There was a joke at Notre Dame about its former president, the Rev.
Theodore M. Hesburgh, and his outside...
The Summer I Shrank My Grandmother
Author: Elvira Woodruff.
Pages: 153.
Publisher: Dell.
Price: $3.25. It's funny. It's sad. It's a mixture of all things. It made the
impossible possible. What am I talking about? The Summer I Shrank
...
Take Time To Play Checkers
Author: Misti Snow.
Pages: 238.
Publisher: Viking.
Cost: $16, hardcover. Today, when political correctness and sophistication is often the
key to a writer's success, Misti Snow shows adults that the simple,
...
Sex Education
Author: Jenny Davis.
Pages: 150.
Publisher: Laurel Leaf Books, 1988.
Price: $2.95 paperback. Sex Education is an intriguing novel about two friends, Livvie and
David, whose lives are forever changed after they complete...
Unfinished Portrait if Jessica
Author: Richard Peck.
Pages: 162.
Publisher: Delacorte Press.
Price: $15, hardcover only. If Unfinished Portrait of Jessica were really a portrait, the paint
on it would be too thick. The "paint" on...
South and North, East and West
Editor: Michael Rosen.
Pages: 96.
Price: $19.95.
Publisher: Candlewick Press `Some of the stories are from countries you may hardly know,
places that seem a little bit scary. But after you've heard...
The River
Author: Gary Paulsen.
Pages: 132.
Publisher: Delacorte Press.
Price: $15, hardcover; $3.99 paperback. You feel as if you're on a dull ride down a slow-moving river
without any twists and turns in it. You're tired and bored,...
Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary
Author: Walter Dean Myers.
Price: $13.95.
Pages: 210.
Publisher: Scholastic. What happens when Malcolm X's exciting life and Walter Dean Myers'
writing ability are combined? A riveting story that's...
A Deadly Promise Author: Joan Lowrey Nixon. Pages: 169 pages. Price: $16. Publisher: Bantam. A Deadly Promise, the sequel to High Trail to Danger, is meant to be
a book of adventure, but it really turns out to be a drawn-out and
boring...
The Witch's Eye
Author: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.
Price: $13.95.
Pages: 179 pages.
Publisher: Delacorte Press. The Witch's Eye is a mystery/horror novel that tells the fantastic
story of how two friends, Lynn and Mouse, try to defeat a...
Mother, Help Me Live Author: Lurlene McDaniel. Pages: 136. Price: $3.50. Publisher: Bantam. Mother, Help Me Live is the story of 15-year-old Sarah McGreggor,
who is fighting a battle with leukemia. I was drawn to this book
because I...
Dave's Way: A New Approach
to Old-Fashioned Success
Author: R. David Thomas.
Pages: 256.
Price: $19.95 (hardback); $4.99 (paperback).
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Dave Thomas, the founder of Wendy's restaurants, made his first
...
Inventors Who Left Their Brands On America Author: Frank H. Olsen. Pages: 196. Price: $3.50. Publisher: Bantam. Inventors Who Left Their Brands on America is interesting and full
of uncommon information that is fun to read and neat to...
Fearless Elizabeth Author: Francine Pascal. Pages: 73. Price: $2.75. Publisher: Bantam. Have you ever felt discourged when someone made fun of you?
This is how Elizabeth Wakefield, a character in Fearless Elizabeth,
by Francine Pascal,...
The Clock is an excellent example of historical fiction. The book, set in early 19th century Connecticut, describes
child labor from the view of a young girl, who endured suffering,
little pay and terrible working conditions. Annie...
Wanted . . . Mud Blossom, written by Betsy Byars and published by
Bantam Books, tells the down-to-earth story of an average American
family. It is a book everyone in households can relate to _
brothers, sisters, moms and dads....
Where's Waldo? It took us six months, but we finally found the adventurous
traveler and star of the Where's Waldo? books _ and his busy
creator, Martin Handford _ in England. Waldo is 5-foot-8, in his late teens or early 20s, thin and
...
Do you sometimes feel like you are different from everyone else? This is how Jane Miller feels in Lone Star, a book by Barbara
Barrie. This 182-page book, filled with excitement, is about a girl
who has to make a major adjustment to a...
Beverly Cleary has written 34 children's books. For seven years, children _ and some adults, too _ have enjoyed the
Newbery award-winning book, Dear Mr. Henshaw. Finally, author Beverly Cleary has written a long-awaited
sequel. Strider...
Joan Lowery Nixon is one of my favorite authors. So when I heard
she came out with a trilogy, Hollywood Daughters, I was excited to
read it. The books in the trilogy are: Star Baby, Overnight
Sensation and Encore. Their stories take you...
Reading Sybil at Sixteen is like watching a soap opera. This
182-page drama is about how the Sebastian family is affected by
something that happened more than 20 years ago. Caught between the
present and the past, the Sebastian family...
SHARLENE TONEY, 14 From the time Deirdre was little, her parents had never really
cared about what she did or why she did it, and she often wondered
why. Around the Bend is about 13-year-old Deirdre and her struggles
as she approaches...
MICHELLE EVANS, 17 The book Squib, by Nina Bawden, is the story of Kate Pollack, a
girl who believes that a mysterious little boy she meets in the
park might be her drowned brother, Rupert. Kate feels responsible for Rupert's drowning....
What do you dream about? If you dream about money and getting
rich, then you should get to know Jason Nozzle, the boy in the
book, Make Four Million Dollars by Next Thursday, by Stephen Manes.
In this 87-page book, Jason does crazy...
After his grandfather died, 3-year-old Michael Hogan kept asking,
"Where is he?" "Can I go there?" To help answer his questions,
Martha G. Green, Michael's step-aunt, wrote Mikey and the Angel of
Light. Mikey, as his family calls him,...