Our second roundup of Newbery-buzzing books features a graphic-novel fairy story, an escape narrative, and a time-travel journey. Plain Jane and the Mermaid mixes fairy-tale components with graphic-novel fashion. Plain Jane and the Mermaid by Ver Brosgol. First Second, 2024, 352 pages Studying Degree: Center Grades, ages 10-12 Advisable for: ages 8-15 Jane is not […]

Not too long ago, I stumbled on a “not occasionally” posed query from a instructor on behalf of a ‘distraught guardian’: “I work with a pupil whose guardian was distraught after seeing the outcomes of routine mid-year screening. As one can think about, this pupil did poorly on the screening and reportedly has been recognized […]