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High School Activist Given PEN Award for Organizing Protests Against “Don’t Say Gay” Bill
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Party to Celebrate Bookstore Cat’s Retirement
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Here Are the Winners of the 57th Annual Nebula Awards
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1600s Predicting the Existence of Aliens Found
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New Freckle Survey Shows Where Americans Get Their Books
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Colin Kaepernick Releasing YA Graphic Memoir
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These Are the States That Love Reading the Most
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Teens in Pennsylvania Created a Fundraiser to Counteract Book Banning
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8 Year Old Published Book About How A Turtle Got Its Shell
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Percy Jackson Author Speaks Out Against Racist Complaints Over Casting
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A Pennsylvania School District’s Proposed Book Challenge Policy is Plagiarized From Texas’s
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The Winners of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize Have Been Announced
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Boston Public Library Is Now Hosting 1-Hour Wedding Ceremonies for $200
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WNDB Campaign to Send Care Packages to LGBTQIA+ Kids and How You Can Help
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Florida Public School Cancels Free Online Math and Reading Services Because of Bill
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Meet the Stars of Percy Jackson and the Olympians on Disney+
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Here’s the New Trailer for Game of Thrones Spin-Off House of the Dragon
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Nashville Public Library Makes “I Read Banned Books” Library Cards
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Dave Eggers Is Giving Away Free Banned Books to Students Denied Access
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Obi-Wan Kenobi Trailer Released on Star Wars Day Teases Major Character’s Appearance
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Peanuts Stamps Coming This Fall to USPS
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Trump-Backed Author JD Vance Wins Ohio Republican Senate Primary
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Free Audiobooks for Teens Available to Download from SYNC
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The 2022 Edgar Allan Poe Mystery Award Winners
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You Don’t Solve Book Bans by Banning More Books: Book Censorship News, April 29, 2022
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London Catholic School Teachers Strike Over Cancelled LGBTQ Book Talk
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Six Countries Represented in 2022 Women’s Prize Shortlist
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Texas Residents Sue Library Board for Banning Books in Closed Meetings
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4x More Male Characters Than Female Characters in Literature, AI Study Finds
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Demon Slayer Trailer Teases New Season
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LeVar Burton to Host National Spelling Bee
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The Guggenheim Museum Welcomes Its First Poet-In-Residence
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We Need Diverse Books Grants Educators $70,000 to Fight Book Bans
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The Trailer for THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER Has Just Dropped
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Potential Increase to Library Budget and What You Can Do to Help
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A Picture Book About Unicorns Was Banned in an Ohio School District
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NIMONA is Being Made Into a Netflix Movie
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The Banning of PERSEPOLIS Has Inspired Its Own Graphic Nonfiction Book
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Williamson County (TN) Schools Lock Students Out of Digital Resources
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Here are the 2022 Hugo Award Finalists
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Stolen Darwin Tree of Life Notebooks Have Been Anonymously Returned
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National Read-In Set for Thursday Evening
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EveryLibrary To Host Censorship Round Table
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House Hearing on Book Bans Set for This Week: Tune In Here
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Book Challenges Quadrupled in 2021, an Unprecedented Increase
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Here’s the Cast for the Bridgerton Prequel About Queen Charlotte
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The Authors for Ukraine Auction Is Raising Money for Ukraine Crisis Fund
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Organize Against Censorship and for Strong Schools with H.E.A.L. Together
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Tupac Shakur’s Unpublished Childhood Poetry is Up for Auction
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Ted Cruz Accidentally Makes Two Anti-Racist Books Bestsellers
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The Trailer for WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING Has Dropped
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J.R.R. Tolkien Estate Releases Rarely-Seen Illustrations From the Author
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Netflix Releases HEARTSTOPPER Trailer
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The Lambda Literary Awards Have Announced Their 2022 Finalists
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Assistant Principal Fired After Reading Kids a Silly Book
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Idaho’s Book Ban Bill Will Likely Not Be Heard in Senate
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The 2022 Women’s Prize Long List
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2022 Ezra Jack Keats Award Winners Announced
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Audie Awards Announces 2022 Winners, Among Them Barack Obama and Lin-Manuel Miranda
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World Book Day UK is Celebrating 25 Years
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Amazon To Shutter Physical Bookstores
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Children’s Book Author Shirley Hughes has Died at 94
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On Read Across America Day, Join PFLAG and #ReadWithLove
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BETTER NATE THAN EVER Trailer Released
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Oklahoma Attorney General Drops Obscenity Investigation of Books
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Solar-Powered Camel Libraries
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Only 27% of Texans Trust Politicians’ Judgement of School Books
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Upcoming Britney Spears Tell-All Memoir Gets $15 Million Deal
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Books Back On Shelves in Walla Walla, Washington
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The Best LGBTQ Books of 2021, According to American Librarians
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Here are the Winners of the 2021 Cybils Awards!
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Here are the Winners of the 2022 Science + Literature Awards
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We Need Diverse Books Starts Grant for Educators Teaching Diverse Stories
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Books Under Fire in Walla Walla, Washington: How To Support the School Board’s Decision
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Craighead County Jonesboro Public Library Needs Your Support
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American Library Association Names the Best YA Audiobooks of 2022
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The Network of Suburban Moms Working To Stop Book Bans
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LEGENDBORN Series is Being Adapted Into a TV Show
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Terry Pratchett is Getting an Official Biography, Out This Year
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2nd Grader’s Hand-Drawn Book Becomes a Hit at the Library
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“Moms for Libraries” Is Conservative Propaganda
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Students Called Radicals by Superintendent Fundraise for Freedom to Read
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Here are the 5 Canada Reads Contenders and their Champions
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Celebrate Black Children’s Book Week February 27 – March 5!
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Continued Harassment of Library Workers in Illinois
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Teaser Trailer Released for Guillermo del Toro’s PINOCCHIO
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Here are the Comics Nominees for the 33rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards
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Thích Nhất Hạnh, Buddhist Monk, Activist, and Author, Dies at 95
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Male Characters Still Outnumber Female Characters in Children’s Books
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Mystery Writers of America Announces the 2022 Edgar Award Nominations
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Little Free Library’s Action Book Club has an Environmental Theme in 2022
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Bookstore Receives Payment for Books 50 Years Later
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Xiran Jay Zhao Auctions Signed Book They Sat On and Raises Over $1,000
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The U.S. Postal Service is Issuing a THE GIVING TREE Forever Stamp
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Mariah Carey is Publishing Her First Children’s Book: THE CHRISTMAS PRINCESS
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The Canada Reads 2022 Longlist Has Been Announced
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Americans Read Fewer Books in 2021 Than Any of the Past 30 Years
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GENDER QUEER May Return to Wake County Public Library Shelves
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Over 1,000 Books from Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Collection Being Auctioned
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The New York Times Announces Their Readers’ Pick for Best Book of the Past 125 Years
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