This just in… Every kid loves a good party and Saturday, Sept. 27, Borders and Waldenbooks stores across the country are throwing open their doors to welcome kids and their families for the retailer’s first ever nationwide free “Kids Party.”

This just in… Shiloh Walker is asking for your help. The hurricanes, the flooding, the destruction, people losing everything they own in the blink of an eye. So what can you do to help these folks who so desperately need it? Donate.

We’ve had a number of discussions amongst us duckies, as well as with ya’ll out there, about how we grade the books we read. Sybil and some of the other gals here at The Pond feel that a book starts out being an average book, a C grade, and then it either rises or lowers [...]