Behind the Bookcase

Hayley plays interviewer to introduce the Redeemed Reader team. Today, she's chatting with our managing editor and staff writer, Betsy Farquhar. Last year we started ...

This is the final installment of a series that began with Behind the Bookcase, Part 1: In Search of A Hiding Place. I had heard ...

  After all these years, I still believe with Lauren Myracle that the development of empathy is one of literature's crowning achievements.  I believe with ...

“All the lonely people, where do they all come from? All the lonely people, where do they all belong?”  The Beatles, Eleanor Rigby Last week, ...

Then I looked at its top sheet, and there was the name—A CLOCKWORK ORANGE—and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of ...

"I don't like our room a bit. I wanted one downstairs that opened on the piazza and had roses all over the window, and such ...

Most YA readers in America stop right here.  From junior high and high school literature, they gain a few basic sentiments--sentiments which may or not ...

"On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A." ...