You are sitting in a playhouse waiting for the lights to go down and the curtain to go up on a stage adaptation of a favorite book. You wait in anticipation to see if the show is going to measure up to your expectations. But ha...

nce upon a time, in a kingdom far, far away, there lived a beautiful princess. If you’ve ever read a fairy tale, then you are familiar with its basic formula: a beautiful princess, whose existence is threatened by an evil villa...

For anyone who has ever visited Concord, Massachusetts, the words “murder,” “mystery,” and “suspense” are not usually the terms associated with the sleepy little place that was once home to such notable greats as Henry David Th...

Nina de la Mer is a Scottish novelist now based in Brighton, England. Her previous novel, 4 a.m., about a pair of young British army chefs posted to Germany, was published in 2011. She earned praise for capturing the slang-fill...

The 2014 Printz Winner has finally arrived! Last week, the American Library Association announced the 2014 Printz winner and four Printz Honor books at the Youth Media Awards celebration. There were a few surprises, and only on...

If your dreams could transform into real-life form, you would truly have great power. This is the basic premise of Najeev Raj Nadarajah’s Dream Caster. Weaver, a young country bumpkin, lives in a post-apocalyptic world and shov...