I was always the smart girl in class, the one that everyone ignored until they needed help with homework or something like that. But reading books gave me an escape from my aloneness.
The release of the seventh volume in Jeff Kinney's Wimpy Kid Series Love is in the Air will definitely be a global event when it is released in November.
Kids are changing faster in these years of early adolescence than at any time since infancy. They're trying to figure out not only how their bodies work but who they are going to be and where they fit in.
Teen Read Week begins this week as a way to get young adults to continue to enjoy reading throughout their teenage years. According to Colleen Cheshir...
NEW YORK -- The books arriving this fall face a radically different market from just a year ago.
The Borders chain is going out of business, shutting...
Until tomorrow's final numbers are released, Hop has the top opening weekend of 2011. Universal didn't even bother hyping the celebrity voices, instead selling the various cuddly characters.
LOS ANGELES -- A wimpy kid has delivered a knock-out punch to a band of warrior vixens at the weekend box office.
The 20th Century Fox family sequel ...
Stymied by the difficult-to-explain narrative and reviews that couldn't see past the fishnets and colorful visuals, the film is another example of geek excitement not translating into mainstream interest.
When last we saw him, Greg Heffley was making a mess of things during his summer vacation from middle school. This week, when The Ugly Truth hits book...
A Prophet is a masterpiece. Obviously, it won't have the same cultural impact as The Godfather, but both are nuanced, emotionally gripping, and above all, wildly entertaining.
The British publisher Michael O'Mara is set to release a mash-up book combining elements of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series with Jeff Kinney's Diary...
Diary of a Wimpy Kid has gone on to rack up over $45 million dollars since its release thanks in big part to not only the bestselling book series but...
There was a multitude of new wide and limited releases this weekend, but the top of the box office remained the same, if only for one more weekend. Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland again claimed the top spot.
Affable, approachable and sensitive to the needs of his performers, Thor Freudenthal got his start working in special effects on the Stuart Little mov...
If you haven't heard of Diary of a Wimpy Kid or its series of books by author, Jeff Kinney then you either have been living under a rock or haven't ...
Alice bounds out of the rabbit hole; conservative titles are burning up the list; and Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney goes Hollywood.
'Alice' is a wond...
Greg Heffley's back again--and Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (Abrams/Amulet, 2009), the fourth book in Jeff Kinney's hugely popular series, is alread...
Yes, Stephenie Meyer had another frighteningly good year with her sexy teen vampires and werewolves. And while Twilight is hardly about to fade into b...