The preteen years are fraught with emotion and change, and a lot of us forget just how much we learn, encounter and confront ...

"My dogs and cats like it when I read to them," Anahi said, checking out the bagful of free books she and other members of Jacqueline Kennedy's first-grade class received Wednesday morning.

The "Percy Jackson" series by Rick Riordan will return to TV screens this year. If you can't wait for Season 2, read one of ...

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Robert Cialdini, 1984 Revised multiple times since its initial publication, this is the first book I read about why and how we influence others.

One group with the teacher doing directed fast-paced instruction on letters, sounds and combining them to read syllables, ...

Literacy rates are tumbling as kids' attention spans dwindle. Families are scraping together funds to move schools or get tutors, driving a societal divide.

Seniors at Evergreen Park Community High School delivered wrapped children’s books to first-graders at all four Dist. 124 ...

And it’s still—I just remember reading it for the first ... grade, and I remember my English teacher had turned it into a sort of big, anticipated event that we would be reading this book ...

But because of grade inflation ... I think the first time I kind of idolized Anna, and then as I read it again—which I know is probably not how you’re supposed to respond to the book, but ...

you have to enjoy what you’re reading. If my wife and I try a new TV show and neither of us likes it after the first episode or two, we abandon it and find something else. Why should books be ...

While you could fill a library with biographies, autobiographies and other nonfiction books about U.S. presidents, the ...