![]() ![]() 22, the publisher quickly ordered another 100,000 copies, which arrived in bookstores, schools and libraries around Feb. After the announcement of the Newbery on Jan. “The Higher Power of Lucky” was first published in November by Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, accompanied by a modest print run of 10,000. ![]() Libraries and bookstores routinely order two or more copies of each year’s winners, with the books read aloud to children and taught in classrooms. But in the world of children’s books, winning a Newbery is the rough equivalent of being selected as an Oprah’s Book Club title. If it were any other novel, it probably would have gone unnoticed, unordered and unread. “That’s what censors do - they pick out words and don’t look at the total merit of the book.” “The people who are reacting to that word are not reading the book as a whole,” she said. ![]()
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