Creepy, spooky, and scary stories for kids are many children's favorite kinds of books to read. If your readers love a good jolt of adrenaline, these scary stories will give readers a spooky and ...

That's a magic that has to happen not just in 12th grade but also in 10th, and eighth, and fourth, and third. Next America's Education coverage is made possible in part by a grant from the New ...

When David Saylor launched Scholastic’s graphic novel imprint Graphix in 2005, middle grade graphic novels were still a small category, and one that often got the side-eye from gatekeepers.

Last month, Scholastic launched Dav Pilkey’s fifth Dog Man graphic novel, Dog Man: Lord of the Fleas, with a three million–copy first printing. That was big news, dwarfing Scholastic’s ...

It’s kids’ books week! There are a lot of new books for middle-grade readers available now! Two bunnies want to get in with royalty in “Lord and Lady Bunny - Almost Royalty!” by National ...

I remember the day our 9-year-old brought Twilight home from the library. The novel, a blood-soaked vampire romance thriller, is a fun read and a real page-turner if you like that sort of thing.

Take this requirement from the third-grade English-language-arts Common Core standard, ... “What do you call your purely fun books for kids?” a middle-grade author recently asked on Twitter.

Both of these studies looked at Florida, a state that has had a 3rd grade reading policy on the books since 2003. In a 2017 study , researchers followed students who were retained in 3rd grade ...

HarperCollins Children’s Books (HCCB) has bought two middle-grade novels by début author Olivia Wakeford. The first, My Dog, is described as “a heartwarming tale of love, loss and friendship ...