Cities: Skylines Paradox Interactive, $29.99 Rated E for Everyone When I was in school, I spent a lot of timing messing around in SimCity 2000. I loved building cities from scratch, tinkering with the layouts, seeing whether I could bring a metropolis back from a natural … [Read more...]
Classic Reconsidered: Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens is one of those authors that most students fear. I know I did. His books just seemed so...boring. But there's a reason he's the classic English author (behind Shakespeare): his books captured what life was like for ordinary people during the 1800s. … [Read more...]
TIP Tries: Decrypto
Decrypto Le Scorpion Masqué, $19.99 Ages 12+ The idea of being a spy and cracking codes is exciting. It's always nice to feel like you can outsmart the competition. And Decrypto, a board game for three to eight people, gives the chance to do just that. … [Read more...]
Classic Reconsidered: Fahrenheit 451
When he was writing Fahrenheit 451 in the early 1950s, Ray Bradbury was trying to invent a dystopian world where learning and free thought were threatened. He was worried about censorship, and about the way new mass media—like television and movies—were changing society. So he … [Read more...]
Review: Axis & Allies 1941
Axis & Allies 1941 Avalon Hill, $29.99 Ages 12+ This review was submitted by Varun Mukund, a seventh grader from Texas. … [Read more...]
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