Gary Paulsen was born on May 17, 1939 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. "I'm only a second-generation American. My father's family came to this country from Denmark; my mother's people emigrated from Norway and Sweden. My father was a career military man who se...

On Nov. 9, 1938, Jewish homes, shops and synagogues were ransacked across Germany and parts of Austria. Jews were beaten to death, and thousands were shipped to concentration camps. Synagogues were burned. Today we remember this pogrom as Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass;...

Here's to You, Jesusa! by Elena Poniatowska, translated by Deanna Heikkinen. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001, 303 pp., $24.00 hardcover. Here's to You, Jesusa! was originally published in 1969 as Hasta no verte Jesus mio. Elena Poniatowska, one of Mexico's...