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04/22/2012

Check out this cool way to celebrate National Poetry Month!

A reader shares the poem Bluebird, part of an ongoing project for National Poetry Month called A Poem From Us. Learn more and add your own at http://apoemfromus.com

12/20/2011

Check this out!

Young adult literature has never been so psychologically probing or artistically ambitious as it is today. Marissa Meyer's favorite novels beguile, thrill and, above all, transport younger readers to a Shakespearean magical theater, futuristic Chicago and a netherworld of ghost hunters.

11/23/2011

Awesome!

Teaching elementary students about money can be challenging. Often, students cannot conceptualize what money is, let alone all of the complicated financial tools that have become a part of our everyday lives. With so many financial games available online, it is tempting to leap straight into simulat...

11/23/2011

This might be handy.

10/02/2011

Love this!

2011 marks the 50th Anniversary of the beloved classic, The Phantom Tollbooth. Meet the book's creators, Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer, and hear them discu...

09/01/2011

Looks like a good read!

09/01/2011

Scott has done it again!!! He has won our monthly prize pack for posting his great book reviews on our Book Review Contest page. Way to go Scott! Our prize pack books for September have been posted and we wish all of you lampies the best of luck in this next month's contest!

08/31/2011

Very cool.

Watch the sneak peek of The Hunger Games movie, in theaters March 23, 2012!

08/31/2011

It is almost the end of the month, and our most diligent lampie has been at it again. It looks like Scott might just win our book review contest for a second month in a row. Only one more day and we will know for sure! Enter your own book reviews at http://illuminateyourmind.com/young-adult-book-reviews/. Good luck to everyone!

08/27/2011

Great list!

Angela Carstensen August 24, 2011 With the new school year just underway-or right around the corner-here are ten must-have adult titles with guaranteed teen appeal to launch your fall reading recommendations. From genres that teens adore to the realism they crave,...

08/10/2011

Congratulations. Yay!

He will succeed W.S. Merwin in the post. Born in Detroit in 1928, Levine has used his poetry to examine blue-collar life; as a young man, he worked in Detroit's car factories.

08/07/2011

Looks like fun.

Hey, all you 39 Clues fans! I bet many of you are waiting as impatiently as I am for the first book in the new 39 Clues series, Cahills vs. Vespers. If you aren’t a 39 Clues fan yet, there are still a few weeks of summer left—start reading (and you can log some final minutes in the Summer Reading Ch...