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Nintendo Magazine Pulled From Middle School Library By Rocco Staino - 03/31/2009
A magazine cover of a woman holding a gun has led a middle school principal to pull it from the media center, over the objection of the librarian. More
West Bend Community Memorial Library Wins Intellectual Freedom Award By SLJ Staff - 12/17/2009
The West Bend Community Memorial Library, located just outside of Milwaukee, WI, is making news again—but this time it's being honored for defending intellectual freedom in the face of a library challenge that gained national attention earlier this year.
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KY’s Montgomery County Removes Select YA Books from Classroom Instruction By Lauren Barack - 12/09/2009
The superintendent of Kentucky’s Montgomery County Schools has removed several controversial YA novels that were being used along with classics like Beowulf and Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales in some sophomore and senior accelerated English classes.
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KY Library Relocates Graphic Novels After Staffers Fired By Lauren Barack - 12/09/2009
Following the firing of two of its circulation staffers for barring an 11-year-old access to the graphic novel, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier (Wildstorm, 2008), the Jessamine County Library in Kentucky has re-catalogued and moved its entire graphic novel collection further away from its young adult books.
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South Dakota Middle Schools Pull ‘Stuck in the Middle’ Graphic Novels By Lauren Barack - 11/30/2009
Two Sioux Falls, SD, middle schools have pulled Stuck in the Middle: 17 Comics from an Unpleasant Age (Viking, 2007) from their general collections, giving only teachers access to the graphic novel anthology but not its intended audience: students.
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Conservative Group Calls for Boycott of Scholastic By Rocco Staino - 11/11/2009
The Illinois Family Institute (IFI), a conservative organization dedicated to upholding and reaffirming marriage and family life, has called for a boycott of Scholastic.
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2009 National Book Awards On the red carpet with nominees in the Young People's Literature category.
Photos by Rocco Staino.
SLJ Covers 2009 A bigger and better view of SLJ's covers from 2009
BookExpo America 2009: SLJ's Day of Dialog School Library Journal held a Day of Dialog in conjunction with the annual BookExpo America on May 28, 2009 at the Brooklyn Public Library. Full story: bit.ly/1a0G7o
GALLOWAY, Priscilla, with Dawn Hunter. Adventures on the Ancient Silk Road. 164p. maps. photos. reprods. further reading. index. Web sites. CIP. Annick, dist. by Firefly. Dec. 2009. Tr $24.95. ISBN 978-1-55451-198-3; pap. $14.95. ISBN 978-1-55451-197-6. LC C2009-902473-X.
Gr 6-8–The monk Xuanzang, the conqueror Genghis Khan, and the merchant Marco Polo each traveled the Silk Road, years apart.
Surrounded! On tour for her book 14 Cows for America (Peachtree, 2009), Carmen Deedy stopped by to talk with third-grade students at the Bank Street College of Education, School for Children in New York City.
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GALLOWAY, Priscilla, with Dawn Hunter. 
