Carol's Corner

As many of you know, this year I was a CYBILS panelist for Intermediate Grade/YA Nonfiction. Since the middle of October, I've read alm...

When I was in high school, and then again in college, I took chemistry. Now, many years later, I remember only a few things. My high school ...

Two or three years ago, one of my sons (who shall remain nameless on the grounds that this story might incriminate him)  had to do a science...

Do you remember high school? How you worried that no one else had those weird zits on their back? When you were desperate for the perfect ta...

In 2006, astronomers surprised the world with the announcement that Pluto had been reclassified. The ninth planet was no longer a planet, in...

This week, my CYBILS reading has taken me from swords to pilots. While SWORDS and AMELIA EARHART: THE LEGEND OF THE LOST AVIATOR might not, ...

I am not, in any way, an advocate of  violence. If I'm being honest, I have to tell you I cringed a little bit when I saw SWORDS: AN ART...

OUR WHITE HOUSE: LOOKING IN, LOOKING OUT An anthology created by 108 authors and illustrators  and the National Children's Book Alliance...

I want my sons and the kids I teach to understand that heroes aren't necessarily people who ride in limousines, or  make lots of money, ...

 Over the last few years, I've experimented with multigenre research reports. I've also begun working on integrating more technology...

Happy Thanksgiving! Today, all over the United States, people will sit down at loaded tables and gorge on turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes,...

Tony O'Brien is the head of the Documentary Studies program at the College of Santa Fe. Mike Sullivan is a bush pilot and photographer w...

In summer, 1979, Cylin Busby was nine years old, living with her parents and two older brothers on Cape Cod, Massachusetts when her life cha...

Maybe the best way to begin to talk about this book is to lift a quote from the back flap: "During his many years spent writing Americ...

My niece is a senior in high school. It's a high stress time, filled with AP classes, ACT's, and college applications, not to mentio...

Some books are so, so, so  beautiful that you could just look at them forever. That's how I feel about HORSE SONG: THE NAADAM OF MONGOLI...

 MODEL is the memoir of twenty-year-old super model Cheryl Diamond. At age fourteen, Cheryl Diamond moves to New York City to pursue a mode...

Everywhere I go, experts are telling me that I need to teach kids to think like mathematicians, or think like scientists, or think like hist...

Some people might describe me as a little headstrong, but basically, I have always been a "good girl," one of those kids whose pre...

I always wonder about writing books aimed at a child/teen audience because honestly, I just don't know that many kids that would read th...