Back to school is here and Labor Day is around the corner. Kids across the country are walking into all kinds of schools. Private schools, public schools, Title 1 schools, charter schools, magnet schools, religious schools, homeschools, boarding schools, virtual schools, and schools inside treatment facilities. Are all these schools equal? No. Are all these schools important? Yes.

Okay—I’m not telling you a story, but did I get your attention? Kinfolk by Sean Dietrich (aka Sean of the South) may be the book you need in your life.

I love a book hangover. I love a book hangover so much I’m doing an entire post about it and then listing some of the books that gave me books hangovers. I didn’t have a name for my book hangovers at first—I didn’t know it was “a thing.” I simply finished a book and looked around trying to figure out where I was, and what was going to happen to the characters now that the book ended, and how was...

Simply stated, Novel Pairings is a fun phrase for pairing two books together that are similar—but one is for adults and one is for children. Not every parent wants to read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn out loud to their 12-year-old. But maybe they want to read James by Percival Everett while their child reads Huckleberry Finn. This can lead to fun and insightful conversations.