Carol's Corner

The  CYBILS SHORTLISTS are supposed to be posted  tomorrow, January 1, 2009. I was on the panel for the Intermediate Grade/YA Nonfiction...

I am a hip and with-it gal! And in case anyone ever doubted that, I've joined TWITTER. I don't quite totally understand it yet, and ...

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...

Today I'm celebrating Pat Mora, one of my favorite Hispanic authors and poets. Pat is probably best known for TOMAS AND THE LIBRARY LADY...

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