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The Horn Books choices of the best books of 2023.

The five-block festival features panels on writing and book bans, live music performances and the opportunity to buy books from local authors.

The free two-day event will have over 100 booksellers, and more than 100,000 visitors are expected. It will run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

HUDSON — The Claverack Free Library and The Hudson Literacy Fund, a non-profit whose mission is to get books into the hands of Hudson kids, announced a co-sponsored Banned Books

It’s 1987, and twelve-year-old Iris Cohen is feeling extremely fragile. In the past year, her father, an NYU professor, has moved to an upstairs unit...

Ami Polonskys newest book for young readers, World Made of Glass, is set in 1987 and features Iris, a 12-year-old facing her fathers death from AIDS.

The books were delivered last winter, but remained “under review” as of September when the literary free-speech activist group PEN America published a report on banned books in the United States.

(JTA) – Mara Rockliff’s “Chik Chak Shabbat” has become a standard for Jewish children since its 2014 publication. The picture book intended for young readers tells a whimsical story about

"Chik Chak Shabbat" made it back to a Jacksonville-area school district, but another Jewish-themed book remains "under review."

“Chik Chak Shabbat” made it back to a Jacksonville-area school district, but another Jewish-themed book remains “under review.”