"Reading aloud to children is a routine that parents have incorporated in their homes-and teachers in their schools-for millennia. It has served as a tool for parent-child bonding and teacher-student instruction, and for good reason: children who are read to reap a host of social, emotional, cognitive, and even physiological benefits. In Read Alouds for All Learners: A Comprehensive Plan for Every Subject, Every Day, Grades PreK-8, Molly Ness demonstrates...

While her friends are spending their summers having pool parties and sleepovers, twelve-year-old Carolina — Carol — is spending hers in the middle of the New Mexico desert, helping her parents move the grandfather she’s never met into a home for people with dementia. At first, Carol avoids prickly Grandpa Serge. But as the summer wears on and the heat bears down, Carol finds herself drawn to him, fascinated by the crazy stories he tells her...

Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.

When quiet sixth-grader Minnie gets a new language arts teacher who makes her think and ask questions, she is inspired to stand up for what she believes in.

Soon after their mother's sudden death in San Diego, Liberty, twelve, and Billie, eight, are abandoned at an Arizona gas station by the father they barely know and Liberty must find a way to keep them together and safe until either Dad returns or they can contact Julie, their mother's best friend.