Elf on the Shelf is a cultural phenomenon: How did it get started? Since 2005, the modern incarnation of Santa’s lovable little scout has enchanted a generation of children, spawned a multimedia ...

Efforts to ban books have sparked a countermovement to find new ways to keep those books in circulation. In Texas, where hundreds of school book bans have been reported in recent years, some teachers ...

A courageous teacher at a public school near Houston, Texas, is bringing banned books to her students via a secret bookshelf in her classroom. According to NPR, the teacher, whose name was withheld to ...

MCDANIELS, Ky., Feb. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Secret Shelfie, a patented home décor innovation, announces the launch of the world's first disappearing storage shelf designed specifically for decorative ...

A teacher at a public school near Houston has a secret classroom bookshelf largely made up of challenged titles. Many of the books deal with race,... A secret shelf of banned books thrives in a Texas ...

In the far, far suburbs of Houston, Texas, three teenagers are talking at a coffee shop about a clandestine bookshelf in their public school classroom. It's filled with books that have been challenged ...