CAPTION: At the American Library Association Annual Conference with Pam Renfrow, center, and Mona Batchelor. Pam is manager, curriculum specialists at Britannica Digital Learning. Mona is librarian at McKenzie (Tennessee) High School. The wonderful Alison Krauss sings...

COPYBOY, the sequel to PAPERBOY, is launching across the state of Tennessee in the coming weeks. Readers in West Tennessee have a chance to attend a book talk in Memphis where the story begins; East Tennessee readers can hear about the new book at my author talks in...

Librarians are an amazing lot. First, they are readers but then they parlay that love of the written word to others in their sphere. A book that is unread is just so much ink and paper (or possibly electronic blips on a screen.) Librarians and booksellers are the ones...