In the first 50 pages, readers meet characters with Down syndrome and Alzheimer's disease. Others grapple with alcoholism, racism and poverty. Martin, who will publish three books a year in the ...

Here are new books for tweens and teens ... who's a big reader that we might fall a little bit in love with the characters in the book and wish they might come to life." Van Leer is a student ...

Author Meg Cabot, who appears at the Blue Willow Bookshop on Friday, captured the hearts of teenage girls with her wildly popular book seriesThe ... lot of time on her’tween series,Allie Finkle ...

Martin, who penned the wildly successful Baby-sitters Club books for children, has created a new series directed toward "tweens ... girls slowly get to know the characters in town while they ...