For children, stories often act as portals into the lives and cultures of others.  To understand the essence of literature, readers place themselves in the characters, and, as we get older, we put...

If you have a sibling, then chances are you know the struggle of giving them an old textbook for a class, only to realize that the class has a new teacher using a different textbook. You are now faced...

[column width=30% padding=4%] “Vanishing Acts” by Jodi Picoult is a thrilling novel about a life turned upside down when a young woman discovers her father is not the man he says he is. The story...