Books Under the Blanket (with a flashlight)

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…

Chicagoland is a great place to looks for ghosts and ghost stories—the site of the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre, the site of the SS Eastland disaster on the Chicago River, the Drake Hotel, Hull House. In fact, there are so many ghost stories in and around Chicago that there is…