One-Third Nerd by Gennifer Choldenko is a layered, warm-hearted story that celebrates family, ... From reader requests, I’ve made a wholesome middle grade books for girls ages 9 ...

“This is the hardest book I’ve ever written,” Anne Ursu says of “The Lost Girl,” her new middle-grade novel about identical twins, crows, girls’ friendship, greed, a creepy antiques ...

Third-grade girl leads book drive. Lisa Verhey-Budding, community@dmreg.com; When an eight-year-old girl reaches out to help teach children from another country learn to read, ...

What they found: Third-grade girls in a summer reading program showed significant gains in comprehension, while third-grade boys did not. Second-grade boys and girls did not see gains. (That’s ...

All third grade students will receive 10 books selected through the district’s partnership with Scholastic. The district will spend just over $550,000 on the program, officials said. The books, which ...