Did you know that it took workers eight years to finish the White House? Construction began on...

What's so great about Washington, DC? Find out the top ten sites to see or things to do in the...

A venerable saguaro cactus stands like a statue in the hot desert landscape, its arm-like branches...

RIF Summer Camp: STEM Stars Badge. What would you do if the perfect science fair project suddenly came to life? In this illustrated novel, a lonely fifth grader named Maya discovers a forgotten homemade robot just when she needs a friend the most. With her best friends in a different class for the first time, Maya is on her own, and this unexpected robot companion might change everything. Could a robot be exactly the friend she never knew she needed?

We shall all, in the end, be led to where we belong. We shall all, in the end, find our way home. In...

Lincoln is in a jam when his basketball team at his new school--where the students are rich and...

RIF Summer Camp: STEM Stars Badge. Have you ever felt like you just don't fit in somewhere new? In this story, twelve-year-old Emmy moves to a new city and school, where she feels totally lost, until a coding class leads her to something unexpected.

RIF Summer Camp: Reading Explorers Badge. Four very different kids wake up on what seems like an ordinary day, never expecting that by the end of it, their lives will be completely tangled together. When a cruel prank leaves Virgil trapped at the bottom of a well, the clock starts ticking, and the others must find the courage and determination they never knew they had.

In a racially polarized classroom in 1970 Alabama, Lu’s talent for running track makes her a new best friend — and tests her mettle as she navigates the school’s social cliques. Miss Garrett’s classroom is like every other at our school. White kids sit on one side and black kids on the other. I'm one of the few middle-rowers who split the difference. Sixth-grader Lu Olivera just wants to keep her head down and get along with everyone in her class.

Reha feels torn between two worlds: school, where she’s the only Indian American student, and home...

RIF Summer Camp: STEM Stars Badge. When Mika starts fifth grade, her perfectly ordered world gets messy fast, especially when her quirky math teacher assigns a journal that mixes numbers with art.

A moving account of how a soccer team made up of diverse refugees inspired an entire community here...

Funny, poignant, and deeply moving, The Line Tender is a story of nature's enduring mystery and a...

RIF's 60th Anniversary Highlighted Book for 2022. Driving through Ohio in an old Pontiac, a young girl's parents stop suddenly when they spot watercress growing wild in a ditch by the side of the road.

As in the classic tale our Snow White falls under the spell of the evil Queen. But who gets left...

RIF Summer Camp: STEM Stars Badge. Lucy gets to do something most kids only dream about: go to work with her dad and explore a real building from top to bottom!