Throwing Strikes: My Quest for Truth and the Perfect Knuckleball, by R. A. Dickey.  Dial, 2013, 296 pages.  Age/interest level: 12-16. Last year Dickey’s autobiography, ...

We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson. Jump at the Sun, 2008. 96 pages. Reading Level: Middle Grades, ages ...

***The Book Giveaway below is over (click here to see who won), but the reading adventure is just beginning!  Feel free to enter your name ...

Have you ever received a handmade tissue-paper poppy in exchange for a donation to the American Legion outside of a store on Memorial or Veteran's ...

A Balanced "Book Diet" Reading is like eating: you need a variety of wholesome ingredients, a little sugar, and a little moderation across the board. ...

In 1868, after a grueling Civil War that defined America (by almost destroying it), novelist and critic John DeForest wrote a piece for The Nation ...

Today, I'm happy to welcome our current intern,Hayley Schoeppler, again.  You guys may recall that she did a review of Mara, Daughter of the Nile ...

***This internship opportunity has been filled.  See here for the winners.***  If you are a high school or college student, love literature and movies, and ...

Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site (see our review here) hurled Sherri Rinker’s star into the picture-book firmament.  Accepted by the first publisher she submitted it to, ...

News Booklists, sick a Summer Reading Challenge, and one of the funniest interviewees I've ever met...all coming up soon on Redeemedreader!  But for now, here ...

For a parent, there’s nothing scarier than sending a high school graduate out into the world—and in fact, the world looks pretty scary these days.  ...

Volunteering to judge a poetry contest is simultaneously one of the best and the worst jobs I could have asked for. The best, because it is ...