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These books for tweens and teens provide writing prompts, tips about writing poetry, poetry, and more. If your upper elementary or middle school child wants to write poetry, I recommend these books about writing poetry that were written for tweens and teens.

Warriors: Power of Three #6: Sunrise

Huntress: Year One
by Ivory Madison (Author), Cliff Richards (Illustrator)

If you are looking for books for kids and teens to use during Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, I recommend these children's books and young adult books. However, these resources are too valuable to use only during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. These recommended reading lists and other resources will be useful year round.

TV-Turnoff Week is now Turnoff Week and the sponsor, the Center for Screen-Time Awareness, encourages parents to turn off all electronic media during Turnoff Week. The encourages families to turn off their TVs, computers, electronic game systems, DVD and CD players, PDAs, iPods and cell phones during Turnoff Week, which was formerly known as TV-Turnoff Week. I recommend you fill time during Turnoff Week by reading aloud to your children and encouraging them to do more recreational reading.

Here you'll find children's books and books for teens for Asian Pacific Heritage Month, Latino Books Month, Children's Book Week, Memorial Day and other May holidays and events. The May calendar of children's books will help you find children's books and books for teens related to May holidays and events.

Percy Jackson:

A Writing Kind of Day: Poems for Young Poets is an excellent books for tweens and teens interested in writing poetry. Ralph Fletcher is the author of A Writing Kind of Day: Poems for Young Poets. Ralph Fletcher is also the author of Poetry Matters: Writing a Poem from the Inside Out, another excellent resource for tweens (8-12 year olds) and young teens who are interested in writing poetry.

Controversy surrounds some of the provisions of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA). What’s The Scoop on Children’s Books and an Excess of Lead? Is there too much lead in children's books published before 1985 or is it much ado about nothing. After all, the Act was passed due to imported toys with a high lead content, not children's books.