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Stephanie Brea of Word Farm Workshops works to grow young writers and sprout creative communities. She is also one of the writing professionals pegged to help teens hone their writin...

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All of us—adults, teens and children—enjoy a scary chill.  What better time of year than Halloween to indulge in stories that make our spines tingle?  It's the perfect time for ...

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The importance of the First Amendment and the concept of "intellectual freedom" might not always be readily apparent to most kids, but Banned Books Week is a great opportunity to make tho...

Credit Kim Wells

This year Where's Waldo turned 25, and in conjunction with his birthday, Penguin Bookshop and Village Green Partners have coordinated a month-long scavenger hunt to find Waldo in 19 parti...

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Summertime, and the reading is easy . . . or challenging, depending on our mood, right? I have just submitted my latest YA manuscript to my agent, so I am gearing up for a reading fre...