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Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge gets kids reading with fun interactive website; free tools for parents include a reading guide, reading timer app, Facebook daily calendar, Google+ chats and more

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Parenting Site Receives Accolades from Web Marketing Association and International Academy of the Visual Arts

Free preview available this summer for educators, parents, students

New York, NY (June 16, 2011) — Scholastic, the global children's publishing education and media company, today announced an all new whiteboard-friendly digital version of Junior Scholastic®, the classic Social Studies magazine read by more than one million kids in 6th-8th grade classrooms across the country.