Emerson, 5, had just picked up her certificate of completion from Duke Children’s Campus, but it wasn’t a true celebration until she was decked out in miniature cap and gown graduation regalia. With ...

has won the John Newbery Medal for the year's outstanding children's book. The Randolph Caldecott Medal for best picture story went to “Chooch Helped,” a tale of Cherokee siblings illustrated ...

Newbery Medal for Best Children's Book Is Given to Erin Entrada Kelly's 'The First State of Being' NEW YORK (AP) — Erin Entrada Kelly's “The First State of Being,” a coming-of-age story that ...

Paralympian Ali Truwit, a Darien native who lost a foot and part of her leg in shark attack, showed off her medals at the ...

NOTE: For the purposes of graduation ceremonies, student grades through the previous semester are used to issue honors award medals as mementos (cum laude = green medal, magna cum laude = red medal, ...