Posted on June 5, 2023 at 8:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

You probably saw this news out of Utah already, but if not: A parent frustrated by book banning efforts in...

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Posted on May 31, 2023 at 9:53 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Fussy spent much of the past five days traveling and visiting with family, so we came back to quite the...

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Posted on May 23, 2023 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The US Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights announced a settlement with a Georgia school district over book removals...

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Posted on May 22, 2023 at 11:05 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

More than a hundred Nobel laureates, including several prominent authors, are calling on Belarusian authorities to release an imprisoned human...

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Posted on May 19, 2023 at 3:05 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Today's edition of disappointing news in the book world can be filed under sad, but not surprising. Al-Jazeera reports that...

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Posted on May 18, 2023 at 8:17 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

PEN America and Penguin Random House have teamed up for a lawsuit against a Florida school district’s book bans. The...

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Posted on May 16, 2023 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

It's so easy to simply feel frustrated by, yet powerless to stop, efforts to ban books. Two Florida mothers are...

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Posted on May 10, 2023 at 3:09 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Florida remains in the spotlight for its state policy towards books. This time, it's about school textbooks. NPR reports that...

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Posted on May 10, 2023 at 8:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga's appeal to her country's highest court has been successful. The BBC reports that Zimbabwe's High Court...

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Posted on May 4, 2023 at 1:58 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Well, we didn't mean for this afternoon to be all about book-related battles, but these are the times we live...

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