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These reading lists include a comic mystery that will appeal to fans of "Knives Out" and "Glass Onion," a Civil Rights trilogy and classics from Shakespeare and Virginia Woolf.

Historical fiction? Romance? Memoir? Mystery? No matter the genre, there's a book club in Kansas City that is right for you.

Kansas Democrats can't seem to overcome the urban-rural divide that's keeping them out of the state legislature, despite some gains in Johnson County. Plus: A new law is changing how Missouri students are taught to read.

Education leaders want Missouri teachers to lean into research-backed literacy instruction methods, known as the science of reading.

From music to theater to biographies, three Kansas City readers share what's on their book list this winter.

Jay Ashcroft argues his proposed restrictions on "non-age-appropriate materials" in libraries will give parents more power over what their kids consume. Library administrators say the rule would force them to take on a “big brother status,” and threaten equal access to information for all children.

While parents are campaigning to remove books in school districts around Kansas City, the Redacted Readers club in Liberty is meeting to read and discuss banned books holistically — and encourage members to speak out on behalf of the challenged texts.

Whether you read every book on your summer list or missed the reading-at-the-beach season altogether, here are some titles that are good any time.

Library workers in K-12 schools are bound by federal laws that those in public libraries might not be. Because school library histories are part of a student’s educational record, parents can see them.

Lead to Read KC uses volunteer reading mentors for one-on-one sessions to establish the "foundation for all other learning."

Publishers Weekly, an international news website of book publishing and bookselling, selected the Raven as this year's best bookstore out of five finalists.

A 2020 survey of parents with children under age 18 had 49% saying their kids listen to audiobooks.