June 16, 2018: There has been a great deal of debate this week on and off-line surrounding the biography of Donald Trump released by Scholastic Library Publishing as part of the Rookie Biographies series for beginning readers. Many critics assume it is a new publication, and are expressing anger at the idea that Scholastic would publish such a biography without addressing the controversial aspects of the Trump presidency.

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