Scholastic faced backlash for putting books dealing with race, gender and sexuality in their own optional category for middle school book fairs. It's now apologizing and working to reverse course.

Elementary schools can choose to exclude certain books with content related to racism and LGBTQ identities when hosting this year’s Scholastic book fairs, the children’s book publisher said.

The battle over books has taken a new front. The season for Scholastic Book Fairs has kicked off, a time when students shop for books at annual pop-up fairs in their own hallways. But this year ...

Book fairs run by publisher Scholastic are a staple at schools across the U.S., with the pop-up sales events allowing students to shop for new titles without leaving school property.

Gabrian McDaniel, 9, picks out a book at a book fair at Dixie Elementary School in Tyler, Texas, on Sept. 19, 2017. This year, Scholastic debuted a collection of diverse books schools can choose ...

Because Scholastic Book Fairs are invited into schools, where books can be purchased by kids on their own, these laws create an almost impossible dilemma: back away from these titles or risk ...

Scholastic's iconic school book fairs are facing an "almost impossible dilemma." The publisher said that state-level book bans are making it difficult to navigate which books to offer students.

The children’s book publisher Scholastic, which had begun separating some books about race, gender and sexuality at school book fairs, said this week it was halting the new practice after ...

It was part of a middle school Scholastic Book Fair that took place from Aug. 14-24. In light of the concern brought forward, we are reviewing our processes regarding book fairs and vendors.

Parents in Grapevine-Colleyville ISD held a book fair over the weekend. They organized the fair after their school district refused to work with book fair vendor Scholastic any longer.

After that complaint, school board candidate David Wallace wrote a letter Aug. 28 to the Little Miami school board members asking them to stop all Scholastic Book Fairs in the district until a ...

This year, schools can opt in or out of including Scholastic's “Share Every Story, Celebrate Every Voice” diversity collection at book fairs. It includes titles about civil rights activist ...