Newswire
Posted on January 23, 2025 at 8:34 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Catch up quick with the bookish news of the past few days ... or take a deeper dive into each story. Your choice!
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Scholastic is donating 22,000 new books to the Caitlin Clark Foundation so that the WBNA superstar can distribute them to elementary schools, middle schools, children's hospitals and other nonprofits, with an emphasis on Clark's home state of Iowa (USA Today).
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Circana reports a 1 percent increase in print book sales in 2024, with gains made in adult fiction and children's nonfiction (Library Journal).
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Read an excerpt from one of the most anticipated fantasy novels of 2025: Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao (Reactor).
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Disney+ has ordered a pilot episode for a series based on Louis Sachar's young adult novel Holes, but with a teenage girl as the main character instead of a boy (Entertainment Weekly).
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Ana Huang's Twisted Love is also coming to the small screen, via Netflix (Marie Claire).
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Writer Lynne Freeman has filed a lawsuit over the similarities between her unpublished novel Blue Moon Rising and the Crave series by Tracy Wolff (The AV Club).
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