This week’s guest on “Poetry from Daily Life” is Ellen Hopkins, who lives in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. She has been a writer for more than 30 years and particularly likes to write contemporary verse ...

When local author and professor Chris Baron set out to write his new middle-grade book, "Spark," he delved into extensive research — visiting towns and communities impacted by wildfire and talking to ...

Sarah Crossan speaks to The Bookseller about her historical verse novel, Where the Heart Should Be (Bloomsbury), which has been shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2025. I’ve always had a deep interest ...

Caroline Carpenter is children's editor and deputy features editor at The Bookseller magazine. She is returning to head up the YA Book Prize I’ve always had a deep interest in Irish history – it’s ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. How many of us as children have suffered from the onslaught of our family unhappiness? How many of us have blamed ourselves for things ...

Goodfellow returns to his narrator Nate in The First Year - Joe Todd-Stanton A generation ago, children’s novels written in verse were something of a rarity. But in 2019, they made up almost half the ...

Seventeen-year-old Diego Miguel Benevides, or Benny, is studying hard and working a low-paying job as a busboy. He's trying to graduate high school, go to college and make his mother proud. He's also ...

Two teenage boys struggle with their friendship and their futures in the new novel-in-verse "When We Ride." NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with author Rex Ogle about it. KUOW is Seattle’s NPR news station.

University of Birmingham provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. E.M. Forster’s final novel and masterpiece, A Passage to India, celebrated its centenary in 2024. It tells the ...

In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball. Cover illustration for “Black Star.”Credit...Godwin ...