For 20 years, a retired Police Department captain has overseen the shipping of books to library branches. Tens of thousands of books are sorted each day.

As Gov. Maura Healey weighs a bill that would set new rules for library materials, readers overwhelmingly said it should be up to librarians.

How a public library and a messy second-hand bookshop helped a small girl with no money and big dreams change the face of science.

Through an arduous summer of hiking, 13-year-old Finn Connelly finds common ground with his late firefighter father in Kate Messner’s new verse novel.

Three literacy and early education scholars expose the racist, anti-teacher politics behind the push to implement “Science of Reading” curriculum in schools.

What a 19th-century Swiss novel, and a young fan’s pilgrimage to the Alps, taught me about fatherhood.