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- ↑ Newbery Honor Books
- ↑ "Penguin Young Reader's Group and Walden Media Set Multi-Year Publishing, Film and Television Joint Venture", PR Newsire, March 27, 2006, accessed March 2, 2011.
- ↑ Springen, Karen. "Walden Media Moves Into the Future", Publishers Weekly, February 19, 2009, accessed March 2, 2011.