New Kid by Jerry Craft. This graphic novel is the Newbery winner for 2020! Jordan’s parents make him go to a private school across town where he’s one of the only kids of color. Besides having ...

Washington Middle School’s Hope Hill, a fifth grade teacher, is throwing “the book” at the books. Hill has found a new and creative way to not only teach her students and make learning a fun endeavor, ...

The cover of "Middle School Superpowers" by Phyllis Fagell. (Courtesy of Hachette Book Group) Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcasted on Nov. 29, 2024.

From a Judy Blume classic to mysteries both otherworldly and close to home, these 11 titles capture the nerve-racking first days of tweendom — and all the wonderful and terrible days that follow.

A Southwest Florida school district has removed books with LGBTQ characters and themes from its elementary and middle school libraries.. A training document saying as much has been circulating on ...

A Massachusetts police chief has issued an apology for any “distrust and alarm” that was caused by an officer who searched a middle school library for an LGBTQ+ book that drew a complaint over ...

Top officials at a Florida school district ordered the removal of all books and material containing LBGTQ+ characters and themes from classrooms and campus libraries, saying that was needed to ...

Good Books Young Troublemakers, a book club for middle graders that highlights potentially controversial content, began as a local venture at Dog-Eared Books in Ames, Iowa.

Police in Great Barrington were recently called to a local middle school after receiving a complaint of a sexually explicit book being shown to students, but authorities determined no laws had ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Top officials at a Florida school district ordered the removal of all books and material containing LGBTQ characters and themes from classrooms and campus libraries ...

A Shelby County middle school removed a book about the Black Lives Matter movement in 2022 after a local father complained. ... with 20 of those books involving LGBTQIA+ characters or authors.