Patricia MacLachlan's "Sarah, Plain and Tall" takes place on a prairie during the late 1800s. Sarah arrives to live with a family and brings them new life. Make a smart choice by reading your favorite novel with a BookFiles reading...

Lois Lowry's, "The Giver", is an Newbery Award novel. Themes of "The Giver" are diversity, freedom, connections, choice, individuality, honesty, and family. Make the smart choice by reading the novel with a BookFiles reading guide. The...

Use this Molly of Denali digital game to extend and expand children's use of informational text, as well as their knowledge of Alaska Native culture. Molly and her friend Tooey use a fictional app to access information that will help...

This site features three novels and uses them to show students that reading can be fun and useful. Students and teachers will benefit from this informative resource.

A review of "The Keeping Quilt" by Patricia Polacco, a story about a Russian immigrant mother and family as well as other resources for teaching young readers.

This reading guide for "A Long Way From Chicago and a Year Down Yonder" by Richard Peck takes a comprehensive look at the author and his work, seven stories about small-town life during the Depression.

This is a complete online study guide/notes for the novel The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.

If you are a student, this site has information about Jane Cutler, her books and some fun and games for you! Teachers, librarians and parents can also access information, study guides, and classroom uses for Jane's material.

"The master of an evocative, strangely poetic universe," Jorge Luis Borges is praised in this article for his contributions to the literary world.

South African born writer and broadcaster Winifred May de Kok (1893-1969) had attended medical school in England during the 1920s and was in medical practice until 1953, when she became a television broadcaster, engaging in discussions...