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You Don’t Show the Sweet Without the Bitter | Up for Debate
Sarah Hannah Gómez I bought my first Holocaust memoir at a Scholastic Book Fair when I was seven. I simply saw an interesting title and picked it up. Nobody told me I couldn’t. Nobody told me I...
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Daniel José Older Besides various free speech groups accusing Scholastic* of censorship for pulling A Birthday Cake for George Washington, here are two other recent moments in literary news: Lee &...
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Joan Bertin The publication of A Birthday Cake for George Washington elicited a great deal of commentary, much of it angrily claiming that the book is racist. At first, its publisher, Scholastic Press,...
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