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In February 2012, Weekly Reader was acquired by Scholastic, [13] which operated the competing Scholastic News. Scholastic announced that it would be shutting down Weekly Reader publication and moving some of its staff to Scholastic News. [1] Following the completion of the merger, the merged magazines are: [14] Let’s Find Out / Weekly Reader ...
In 2007, Scholastic announced the launch of a new historical mystery series called The 39 Clues, intended to become a franchise. [15] Lerangis wrote the third book in the series, The Sword Thief, published in March 2009. [16] [17] [18] On March 3, 2009, Scholastic announced that Lerangis would write the seventh book in the series, The Viper's Nest.
From 1987 to 1995, Kravitz was an editorial director of Scholastic Inc., an educational publishing company. [1] He oversaw several classroom magazines, including Choices, Science World, Search, Update, [2] and Junior Scholastic. [3] He also served as director of new media and special projects for the company's 37 magazines. [4]
Scholastic was founded in 1920 by Maurice R. Robinson near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to be a publisher of youth magazines. The first publication was The Western Pennsylvania Scholastic. It covered high school sports and social activities; the four-page magazine debuted on October 22, 1920, and was distributed in 50 high schools. [3]
Judy Blundell, pseudonym Jude Watson, is an American author of books for middle grade, young adult, and adult readers. [1] She won the annual National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2008 for the young adult novel What I Saw and How I Lied, published under her real name by Scholastic Books.
Animorphs: Shattered Reality is a platform video game, released for PlayStation. Developed by SingleTrac, it revolves around four of the Animorphs trying to find pieces of the Continuum Crystal before Visser Three does. [29] A Game Boy Color game was also published by Ubisoft.
Jarrett J. Krosoczka (/ k r ʌ ˈ z ɒ s k ʌ / krə-ZOSS-kə) (born December 22, 1977, in Worcester, Massachusetts) is the author and illustrator of several graphic novels and picture books, most famously his Lunch Lady series.
Andrea Davis was born September 25, 1963, in Washington D.C. and was raised in Connecticut. Her parents were involved in the civil rights movement and exposed her to the cause from early on, even taking her to the annual conference of the National Urban League during many of her summer vacations.