The Canton Black Assistance Foundation has launched a program to help city students improve their reading skills.

Bestselling author Jessica Lahey to share prevention strategies and bust myths at free seminar; $200 prize announced for one ...

Here are Parade’s 116 Best Kids books of all time, according to indie booksellers from across the country; acclaimed authors ...

Heather Bouwman has two children in their 20s and a new book — “Scattergood,” out Jan. 21 — that is technically older than both of them. The St. Thomas University creative writing professor, who ...

A staggering 53% of girls report feeling persistently sad or hopeless. As one seventh-grade girl told us, “Girls my age don’t feel happy the way we are. We want to be someone else.” Reading this, I ...

This free day of workshops and inspiration is open to all rising 6th through 8th grade girls in Illinois. Every girl will get to choose their desired field focus workshops from engineering ...

Olivia Hofrichter pinned each of her opponents enroute to a 1st place finish, and Maycee Dvorak was victorious 3 times to finish in 7th place. Olivia Hofrichter looked to defend her recently updated ...

Poet and author Amanda Gorman offers a key line in her picture book for young readers called "Girls On The Rise" that seems to sum up the focus of her inspirational story. When one girl is on the ...

Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and digital platforms. Lizz Schumer is the senior books editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

HERKIMER, N.Y. -- There were three all-local girls basketball games on Saturday at Herkimer College in the fifth-annual Utica Board of Officials for Women's Basketball Cancer Challenge. The fourth ...