Books Under the Blanket (with a flashlight)

When I was a kid, we knew the vast majority of the neighbors on our dead end street. The Morris family lived next door. The Andersons lived across the street. The Moyers family lived next to the Andersons until the Bradfords moved in. The Vegetables lived next to them (and…

We’ve all heard stories about babies who were switched at birth. When I was younger, it was obvious that I was very different from my siblings, so that was the joke in our family. But I have heard the story of the night I was born too many times in…

Whodunit?! Kids love solving mysteries, and there’s no shortage of teenage and kid crime solvers in books and on television: Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, the Scooby Doo gang, Harriet the Spy, Power Rangers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, even the kids from the Riverdale series (although I would argue that…