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Interview: Author Of Lunar New Year Mad Libs Shares Thoughts On Writing, Asian Representation In Books

Lunar New Year is an annual festival celebrating the New Moon on the lunisolar calendar by Chinese people and those

Native American culture is known for its legends. This is one about a girl who loves wild horses. She would

Thanksgiving is just a few weeks away. It’s a time for families to get together and reconnect. For many Black

Coretta Scott King Award winning book Ashley Bryan’s ABC of African American Poetry is a compilation of stanzas and excerpts

You’ve probably read or heard about the bestselling novel The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. In her latest novel,

Seventh-grader Pippa is a funny, quirky, and kind young girl who earns a scholarship to a fancy private school because

Many kids like to make up their own languages, and communicate with their friends or siblings in their newfound dialect.

Note From Elena Reads: My younger brother has been really getting into the Big Nate graphic novel series, so I

Alex Reeve is a 23-year-old from St. Paul, Minnesota who loves books. Last year, she read 99 of them, and

I’m so excited I got chance to talk with award-winning author Jerry Craft. We discussed everything from getting kids to