By Charlene Giannetti
In 1956, Jackie Robinson retired from professional baseball, a year after he helped the Brooklyn Dodgers win the World Series against the New York Yankees. Robinson played for the Dodgers for nine seasons, breaking the color barrier that would soon place at least one African American player on [...]
Testing the Ice—A Daughter’s Tribute to Her Father
By Stephanie J. Podhany
Ghosts, goons, and goblins. Halloween is a great excuse for children to celebrate everything that goes, “Boo,” in the night. So why not use this opportunity to encourage children to celebrate the, “Boo,” that can be found in books, particularly those books that are geared [...]
By Charlene Giannetti
Thirty years ago, on August 2, 1979, Thurman Munson, Yankee catcher and captain, died in an airplane crash. This year, the Yankees moved to a new stadium and Munson’s locker, the one that remained untouched all those years in the old stadium, has a place in the new [...]
By Marie Hansen-Lehmann
Tonya Hurley, New York Times best-selling author of ghostgirl releases the second book in the series ghostgirl: Homecoming this month. To celebrate she’s having an action-packed release party at the Jefferson Market Branch of the New York Public Library. The evening will include a reading of her newest [...]
By Sarah Ockler
There’s so much to love about modern young adult (YA) fiction. It’s deep and sophisticated. It’s edgy, exciting, and heartbreaking. It’s well written. And as any teen reader will attest, it’s downright entertaining.
But teens aren’t the only ones indulging their literary taste buds in this growing genre. Adult [...]
By Charlene Giannetti
In 2006, with Margaret Sagarese, I co-authored a parenting book, Boy Crazy! Keeping Your Daughter’s Feet on the Ground When Her Head Is in the Clouds. During the ten years Margaret and I had spent writing about young adolescents, talking with them, giving presentations to parents, we became [...]
If you are a true New Yorker, you rarely walk down a street with your head held high. The risk is too great you will trip on a badly maintained sidewalk or, despite the pooper-scooper law, step into something you’d rather avoid. You can be forgiven, however, for looking down [...]
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