Both girls love animals and baking and live in Columbia. The only difference Ellie saw between them was that Summer is an 18-inch doll and Ellie is a real, live second-grader. Clothed in a rainbow ...

What it means to be good — or not — is the infected wound at the center of Aria Aber’s debut novel, “Good Girl.” The narrator is a forlorn young woman named Nila Haddadi, and the story ...

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu gave birth to her third child, a baby girl, Monday afternoon. Mira Wu Pewarski checked in at 8 pounds, 4 ounces, and 20 inches, Wu’s office said in a statement.