Windeby Puzzle News Today

Here are the year’s most notable picture, chapter and middle grade books, selected by our children’s books editor.

The Mississippi Book Festival returns for its ninth year August 19, 2023 with over 150 authors and a selection of panels and family-friendly activities.

Headlining authors come to share some of their latest work.

Recently, award-winning authors engaged in conversation; an actor/author made a school visit; a Newbery Medalist got a paperback release; and a YA author launched their haunting debut.

Check out our comprehensive A-to-Z listings of publishers’ spring offerings for kids and teens, and more, in our Spring Announcements issue.

Finished all of Rick Riordan's books? Here are 20 great authors with similar books to immerse you in new fantasy worlds.

Various events are happening this week in and around DeKalb County, including a Valentine’s Day pop-up in Decatur Square, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at the Fox and the Avondale Arbor Day Tree Planting. Several local government meetings are also scheduled for this week.

In her new book, The Windeby Puzzle, two-time Newbery Medalist Lois Lowry combines both narrative history and fiction to imagine the life of an adolescent child from the first century whose remains were excavated in northern Germany.