Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin Some failures lead to phenomenal successes, and this American nurse’s unsuccessful attempt to climb K2, the world’s second tallest mountain, is one of them. Dangerously ill when he finished his […]
The infamous summer slide is upon us—and to help beat it, Scholastic is launching the Scholastic Summer Challenge, a four-month global literacy campaign designed to motivate kids ages eight and up to read four or more books during the months that they’re not in school. The Web-based campaign, which kicks off April 30, helps kids […]
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin Some failures lead to phenomenal successes, and this American nurse's unsuccessful attempt to climb K2, the world's second tallest mountain, is one of them. Dangerously ill when he finished […]
The closer science looks, the more links it finds between lifestyle and long-term ailments, Julie Robotham writes in part two of a Herald series. Read on ...
"Every thought-seed sown or allowed to fall into the mind, and to take root there, produces its own, blossoming sooner or later into act, and bearing its own fruitage of opportunity and circumstance. Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit." - As A Man Thinketh Read on ...
Be More Funny, Make More Money® with David Glickman All things being equal, the funnier speaker gets hired. Period. In today’s competitive speaking market, you cannot afford to be mildly amusing. You must be funny. Really, really funny. When people talk about you (behind your back — which is a good thing) you want them […]
Common, the rapper known for his socially conscious themes and intricate lyrics, is a Grammy Award winner as well as the author of three books for children. A longtime advocate for urban youth, Common recently launched the Corner Book Club, an interactive book club for teens, on the Web site of his charity, the Common […]
KL Going's King of the Screwups is getting rave reviews, and now KL is holding a huge contest that asks you to confess your biggest screwup in a paragraph or more! If she laughs hysterically, or cries in sympathy, you just might be a winner! [From Readergirlz - read more there and get the link […]
Teens' Top Ten is a "teen choice" list, where teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the previous year! Nominators are members of teen book groups in fifteen school and public libraries around the country. Nominations are posted in April during National Library Week, and teens across the country vote on their favorite titles […]
New book ... author Dan Brown, left, with US actor Tom Hanks. Photo: AP A mammoth 6.5 million copies of Dan Brown's new book will be printed in its first run. Six years after the release of his mega-selling The Da Vinci Code, Brown's publisher said The Lost Symbol, a thriller set during a 12-hour […]
