Not My Idea: A Book about White­ness also follows an elementary-age kid as she asks her mom questions about the recent murder of an unarmed black man by a white police officer. But in this book, the ...

He included some photos of Sting looking lonely and forlorn, and urged anyone who might know "a 4 to 8 yr old who would like to read to a dog" to "please contact the White Bear Lake library by phone." ...

Not quite a year and a half after Loma Prieta, in March 1991, a group of white Los Angeles Police Department officers was caught on video beating a 25-year-old black man named Rodney King.

David French asks, What if kids are sad and stressed because their parents are? Children are anxious about their parents’ mental health. (Annie Flanagan | The New York Times) A teenage girl at ...

Kate DiCamillo is the two-time Newbery award-winning author of Because of Winn-Dixie, The Tale of Despereaux and, most recently, Raymie Nightingale. Earlier this week, the author Matt de la Peña ...