Many high school students focus just on their GPAs believing high academic classroom performance and perfect SAT scores will open doors to their college dream school. Perhaps this was the best path to take a generation ago, but 21st Century colleges and universities want more. According to Elizabeth Dankoski, founder and CEO of The Dream…
Daddy’s Girl, by Ben Burgess Jr., is a unique novel about the black experience in America as seen through the eyes of a father and his daughter. Nick Johnson is an underachieving alcoholic and womanizer with little ambition other than partying with friends. After he gets a married woman pregnant, she decides to give the…
The 2016-17 school year starts today for the Los Angeles Unified School District and in many other school districts around the USA. High school students interested in going to college must make sure their transcripts reflect grades that will get them into a good college. When college admissions officers decide whom to accept for their…
Pop’s Blog would like to welcome Gretchen Hydo, an executive business and life coach. Once a month Gretchen will offer her advice on parenting, business, relationships, love, money, friendships and more right here on Pop’s Blog. Feel free to send in your questions to be included in her next #AskGretchen column or you can e-mail…
Let us know what you think of the covers for Daring the Bad Boy and Keeping Her Secret (Endless Summer Series) by Monica Murphy and Sarah Nicolas (respectively)! Daring the Bad Boy & Keeping Her Secret both release on August 22, 2016 This cover reveal is brought to you by Entangled TEEN, YA Books Central…
Children are being offered the chance to become deep sea explorers as part of a groundbreaking science expedition launching in the North West Atlantic this week. Deep ocean scientific research charity, Nekton, is calling on young people around the world to ‘virtually’ join their first expedition to explore and research the Earth’s largest and…
About Lois Lane: Double Down, Entertainment Weekly says,” …it’s basically Lois Lane in a Veronica Mars-esque plot, which sounds like all kinds of awesome.” And it is. In her second Lois Lane book, author Gwenda Bond has recreated Lois as a teenage cub reporter for the Daily Planet. Her editor, Perry White, pressures teen Scoop…
If you or someone you know is finishing up their last year of high school this thought may be entering minds, “Should I take a gap year?” A “gap year” is a year off from studies between high school and the first year of college. It’s not a vacation year, either. It should be time…
School in Los Angeles begins August 16, 2016. It’s been a long hot summer, so slow the pace a bit, kick back, and read a book. It’s so important that the reading skills of children remain sharp. According to an article in Reading Rocks, “Summer Reading Loss,” thirteen academic studies covering 40,000 students discovered that…
Leila Marvi is deaf. She’s also the main character in Koolura and the Mayans, and a secondary character in Koolura and the Mystery at Camp Saddleback. She has a few things to say about herself, BFF Koolura Akopyan, and the two novels she appears in. Can you tell us a little about yourself? My name is Leila Marvi….