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August #AskGretchen: Politics, Bratty Kids, Single Again, Conflict at Work

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…

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Endless Summer Series Cover Reveals: Daring the Bad Boy & Keeping Her Secret

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 on Summer Break Invited to Join Deep Ocean Science Mission and Take a ‘Virtual’ Ride in a Submersible

  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…

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Lois Lane, cub reporter, is back

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…

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SCWBI Summer Reading List could boost kids’ reading ability

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…

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Koolura Series character Leila Marvi speaks out

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….

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How Netflix protects kids and parental responsibility

Netflix, a global provider of streaming movies and TV series, has over 75 million subscribers. It started service in 1998 as an American DVD-by-mail service and began streaming in 2007. Recently, it has produced award-winning programs such as “House of Cards” and “Orange is the New Black.” The company also cares about kid programming that includes…

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Changes in the GED HS Equivalency Exam

A GED Certificate is equivalent to a high school diploma. Michael Ormsby says in his article, “Three Reasons to get a GED Certificate,“ in the United States “39 million adults don’t have a high school diploma.” Since the population of the US is about 323, 343,000, there are about one out of ten adults functioning…