One of the Iowa Goldfinch books nominated this year is Katherine Applegate's nonfiction children's book Ivan: The Remarkable True St...

Third, fourth, and fifth graders have recently completed their work with an Iowa Children's Choice Award nominee. ( You can read about o...

Based on author/illustrator John Rocco's experience as a 10-year-old boy in Rhode Island growing up, Blizzard tells the story of a bl...

With the change in the voting deadline for the Iowa Goldfinch Award (votes are now due by March 1), we began our Goldfinch work just ahead o...

First graders at Dallas Center Elementary recently read the favorite Olive, the Other Reindeer by Vivian Walsh and J. otto Siebold. W...

The winners of our recent Scholastic Book Fair All for Books competition were awarded with a popcorn party in the library recently. Rather t...

With our Iowa Children's Choice Award read alouds coming up, students in 3rd - 5th grade accessed some background knowledge related to t...