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Nearly three-quarters of back-to-school shoppers expect to spend the same amount or more this year than they did in 2024, ...
The Orange school board didn’t want to be next. Days after the State Board hearing, the Orange school board decided to remove ...
Book-loving adventures over five decades inspired a California couple to make a $3.1 million donation to Rare Book School at the University of Virginia, the largest donation in its history. “There’s ...
TAMPA — “This Book Is Gay,” a nonfiction book that offers guidance to LGBTQ+ youth, will no longer be available at any Hillsborough County middle school. With a 4-3 vote Tuesday, the school ...
More than 1,600 books were banned in over 5,000 schools during the last school year, with most of the bans targeting titles related to the LGBTQ community or race and racism, according to a new ...
The Scholastic Book Fair, the still-trucking darling of the nostalgic internet, is in trouble. For weeks, librarians have been reporting an odd experience: When they went to order books for this ...
TALLAHASSEE, Florida — A northeast Florida school district this week agreed to restore 36 books that were challenged and previously pulled from campus libraries in a settlement of a federal ...
“This Book is Gay,” by Juno Dawson, starts with a welcome: “There’s a long-running joke that, on ‘coming out,’ a young lesbian, gay guy, bisexual, or trans person should receive a ...
A school board in Tennessee voted unanimously to remove Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel 'Maus' from its 8th-grade curriculum. The “Velshi Banned Book Club” looks at why ...
The 2023-2024 report found 10,046 book bans, a 200 percent rise over the previous school year. Over 4,000 individual titles were banned in these cases, and 4,295 bans involved books completely ...
"Ban This Book" is about a schoolgirl who tries to check out her favorite book from her school library, E.L. Konigsburg's "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler," only to find it's ...
A book removed from a North Attleborough elementary school library will be returned to the shelves amid dismay from the community, the superintendent said. Superintendent John Antonucci apologized ...