When Slowpoke is fired from the Jellyfish Bus service for being too slow, he decides to go on a vacation. A government-run, ...

The novelist Maggie O’Farrell (“Hamnet”) touches on this painful phase in her third book for children, “The Boy Who Lost His Spark,” a lovely read-aloud for children ages 5-9. Young Jem has had to ...

The study of sea creatures has Oriole Park Elementary students learning many facts about animals, from anemone to zebrafish.