In Linda Joan Smith’s “The Peach Thief,” an orphaned girl posing as a boy raids an English Eden. By Jennifer Howard Leonard S. Marcus brings the wonder of a 1968 snapshot to a new generation.

W hen our son Sam was six years old, he was assaulted in the boy’s bathroom at school. Sam was wearing khaki pants and a grey ...

A boy with the “greenest of thumbs” and an uncanny knack for plant-grafting is drawn to life in a remarkable new story by ...

Your mother tells you stories. She talks about things that happened before you were born; Grandpa does it, too, and you like ...