Writer Andrew Clements seems to know a lot about what middle school kids feel. In the book Troublemaker, Clayton Hensley is mischievous but not quite ...

You would think that writers are good readers. Not Jenn Reese. “I started out as a terrible reader,” she admits. “So bad, I had to attend specia...

Gitty Daneshvari began writing humor-filled spooky books to help face her childhood fears. As a young girl, Gitty says she worried about everything fr...

When Greg Bancroft set out to write Betsy’s Day at the Game, he had one goal in mind. “I wanted the reader, especially young girls, to learn how t...

Environmentalist and writer Rachel Carson is often credited with stirring the modern global environmental movements, like Earth Day, which today is ce...