Cape Verde Gets Its Day In the Sun: A Q&A with Janet Costa Bates

When do librarians and teachers tend to lose their most passionate readers? There’s actually no single moment when it happens. Usually, the more likely outcome is that occurs slowly, as kids find it increasingly difficult to locate the kinds of books they love. Two distinct drop off points come immediately to mind. One happens in the middle school years, when you have that odd transition from juv to YA. But even before that, there comes the point between easy books and full length novels/upper n...