Dean Schneider
Content by Dean Schneider
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Liam Lynch’s father, a famous fiction writer, has often said that “the real world is the very very strangest of places.” Liam was out wandering with his friend Max when they found
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“Everyone knows that Alberto Santos-Dumont invented the airplane,” right?
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German artist Franz Marc painted Blue Horse in 1911—a heavy-bodied horse, oddly blue, yet beautiful. Marc loved bright colors, even when applied to unexpected subjects.
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Living in upstate New York with a name like Mohammed Sami Sabiri, Sami has always felt like an outsider—the school nerd, a member of his school’s “leper colony” and the subj
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Times are bad for 17-year-old Wyatt Lathem. All extracurricular activities at East Canton High have been cut due to the poor economy, so Wyatt’s baseball season is over before it begins.
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Doug Lee is always going to be as he is right now—short, doughy and 15. And if high school sucks for many kids, it especially does now for Doug: He is a vampire.
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In Our Town, Jane Crofut receives a letter addressed: “Jane Crofut; the Crofut Farm; Grover’s Corners; Sutton County; New Hampshire; United States of America; Continent of North
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“It’s for the best,” May’s parents tell her as they ship her off to work on a neighbor’s homestead for a few months.
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A burning witch, a girl celebrating her birthday, a master puppeteer and his two orphaned assistants, and a dark city half-drowned in fog animate Laura Amy Schlitz’s lushly written Victorian
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“Much depends on a best friend,” Will Grayson says. And when that best friend is Tiny Cooper, friendship is a big deal. Literally.
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“Another line crossed. And you didn’t even notice.” It wasn’t supposed to happen this way.
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Jerry Pinkney’s latest picture book is an absolutely gorgeous example of book making and pictorial storytelling, a wordless book readers will “read” over and over again, each time
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He looked the same: the same space alien pajamas, the same holey socks, the same way of descending the stairs on his rump.
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Caldecott-winning author and illustrator Allen Say was once a comic book character.
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Russell Freedman has set the standard for fine history writing for many years, and this new volume lives up to his own high standards.
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“Hell isn’t some fiery/ pit ‘down there.’ It’s right here on Earth, / in every dirty city, every yawning town.
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Angel Morgan and her little brother Bernie have been dumped on their great-grandmother in rural Vermont.
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What do you do when you’re a princess and none of your suitors suits you?
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In Rebecca Barnhouse’s The Book of the Maidservant, Dame Margery Kempe is the most pious woman in Lynn, a natural candidate for undertaking a pilgrimage to Rome.
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In Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Children’s Book, Anita Silvey offers a guided tour to children’s books that have changed lives.
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“I saw change coming and that’s always a worry,” Helena says at the start of Richard Peck’s Secrets at Sea.
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Mrs. Scullery, Mina McKee’s teacher at St. Bede’s Middle School, tells her students that writers never write anything until everything is planned out carefully.
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“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious,” said Albert Einstein, and that’s exactly what 12-year-old Miranda has. In fact, her whole story is a mystery.
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“We stay, we starve,” says Gopal’s father, Baba, having decided to move his family from their rural village to Mumbai, where there are jobs and a new life.
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Acclaimed author Lois Lowry contributes the second new volume to the recently relaunched Dear America series of diary-style historical fiction with Like the Willow Tree: The Diary of Lydia Ameli
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“Time to visit kinfolk,” Aunt Tilley would say to 12-year-old Delana, reaching for the basket behind the sofa.
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Nikki Giovanni defines poetry as “pure energy horizontally contained,” and that’s exactly what the best novels in verse offer: energy and immediacy in the voice of the narrator an
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It was only a modest charm, a black heart with a hole right through it, shaped from flint during the Stone Age. But if the Flint Heart was black, so too became the heart of whoever possessed it.
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You have to give him credit. Christopher Paul Curtis could have stuck with writing the kind of books that have already brought him much acclaim.
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Here’s something new in the world of children’s literature—a documentary novel, in which the narrator’s fictional story set in 1962 is interwoven with photographs, newspaper
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In the 15 years since Virginia Euwer Wolff’s Make Lemonade was published, novels in verse have become a familiar genre, but Wolff was a pioneer and remains a master of the form.
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If this were the classic road novel, 17-year-old Remy Walker would leave his little West Virginia town of Dwyer and go off with his $1,000 life savings, his beat-up old car, and his girlfriend Lisa
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The 2008 Caldecott Committee made a bold decision in selecting Brian Selznick’s The Invention
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Eleven-year-old Matisse Jones thinks his family is a bunch of “goofy loons.” Take his father, for example.
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