Cheers and screams erupted through the first-grade hallway of Sweeney Elementary last Friday, with nearly a hundred first graders celebrating gifts of books and goodies. The kids were part of about ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - It was an exciting day for students in Mrs. Harrison’s class at Harrison Elementary School in Cedar Rapids. First graders opened up their first decodable book packs they’ll ...

Jazz Jennings's 2014 children's book I Am Jazz is once again prompting controversy — plus lots of support. (Photo: Dial Books/Amazon) Now that pattern continues in Bellingham, Wash., where the book’s ...

Local author and publisher Nicole Magistro has made it her mission to introduce kids to the world of possibilities found in books. From her inaugural children’s book, “Read Island,” to a publishing ...

Almost 38,000 Iowa first grade students are slated to receive new books to take home as part of the state's ongoing literacy initiative. First grade students in public and accredited private schools ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- As our Kelsey McGee recently reported, Sky View Middle School’s creative writing class has been working on creating books for younger students. A total of 21 students signed up ...

More than 200 first-graders in the Bettendorf School Disterict completed this year’s Booker Bear Reading Challenge. Each year the Bettendorf Public Library Foundation along with the support of ...

More than 200 first-graders, 232 to be exact, in the Pleasant Valley School District completed this year’s Booker Bear Reading Challenge. In all 93 percent of first-graders in the district ...

I much enjoyed this conversation with Kayla Ann Toney (First Liberty Institute), who was the prevailing lawyer in S.E. v. Grey: Encinitas Unified School District required two fifth-grade boys and ...

First- and second-graders at five elementary schools in Columbia Public Schools this week are receiving book bags containing four books, with a coupon for another free book. The book giveaway is part ...

SPRING, Texas (KTRK) -- Stacks of books piled on tables in the library at Claughton Middle School were a peek into the treats to come for more than 200 sixth graders at the campus in Spring ISD. From ...