PORTLAND, Oregon — A new book club has started up at a North Portland school, and it's become a place where one group of girls can relax and be themselves. At Cesar Chavez School, twice a week, a ...

I am writing you all on behalf of my 8-year-old sister, Kennedy Rain Thompson. At this moment, as you see on the return address, I am incarcerated and so I can’t do much to help my little sister, but ...

Book Club might be a misnomer, because the NDN Girls Book Club involves more than talking about books. This upstart literary nonprofit — run by Native women under the age of 25 who are also juggling ...

A group of young girls gathered around an Upper Marlboro coffee table on a Saturday late last month, carefully analyzing a book by Jim Benton. It was the second meeting of the Butterfly Girlz Book ...

They pick a title, read it and then gather to discuss it in detail. But unlike more traditional book clubs, many of these groups add on another activity — or multiple — to turn their gatherings into ...