This article was originally published in Maine Morning Star. There were two crates waiting for Valerie Smith, an elementary school librarian, when she arrived at the Sanford School Department’s ...

Each month, the Columbia Public Library offers selections from its collection related to a current best-seller or hot topic. Library Associate Chris Siebeneck compiled this month’s selections. There ...

Restless Books’ Kellman Prize for Immigrant Literature, formerly the Prize for New Immigrant Writing, announced the finalists for the 10th iteration of the award at an event at Manhattan's Tenement ...

Saturday at the Woodrow Wilson Library in Falls Church dawns with trouble: A class in Microsoft Word is packed, and three of the seven terminals in the tech room are down. But when they arrive ...

(NEW YORK) -- Immigration can be a hot-button topic, something frequently discussed on cable news and splashed across the headlines. But to one enterprising young author, it's also the perfect ...

This Mother's Day, many of us will also be thinking about our grandmothers, great-grandmothers and ancestors. The connection between grandmother and grandchild is at the heart of "Memory Garden," ...

Adults immigrate for myriad reasons, and often with gains for future generations in mind. But from a child’s perspective, immediate losses dominate. “All these choices are made for us—as refugees, as ...

Writer and illustrator Jacqueline Alcántara draws from her own childhood to help kids navigate their diverse identities in her new book. Chicago Tonight is available to stream on pbs.org and the free ...

As a college professor, Grishma Shah uses her storytelling skills to teach her students about economics, culture and globalization. "Students rarely remember the numbers, graphs or data, but they do ...