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❤️Ĭlick below for a sample letter to your school board. And we need you to speak up for your friends and classmates. Young people-your voice matters more than ever. But they are often outnumbered at meetings by a vocal minority. As we have seen in many of these battles, it’s going to take passionate student voices to stop a small yet loud group of people from limiting our education and from hurting students of color and those who identify as LGBTQ+. These bans are attempting to make bigoted voices the loudest in our communities. Well-trained and experienced librarians and teachers are trying their best to do the jobs they were trained to do. Agent: Michael Bourret, Dystel, Goderich & Bourret.It is no secret that special interest groups, politicians, and school boards all over the country are targeting young people of color and those in the LGBTQ+ community by challenging, banning, and removing books that help those students and their families feel seen and included in their schools and communities. King empathetically tackles the intersections of multiple sensitive topics-mental health, patriarchy and sexism, war's realities, whitewashed history-while educating readers on the power of protest and the benefits of living with grace. But Mac struggles with internalized shame, secretly fearing he'll turn out like his callous, erratic father, a fear kindly explored by his keenly drawn Vietnam War veteran grandfather. McKenney also dismisses their concerns, however, making the kids even more determined to fight for the right to the 'whole truth.' Their campaign inspires some students to publicly discuss aspects of their lives, including a girl who reclaims her non-Anglicized name.

Sett-she's always writing letters about banning junk food or insisting that local homes be painted white 'to maintain the look of history'-so they show the selectively redacted text to their principal. At Independence Elementary, Mac Delaney and his friends Denis, who's loyal and has anxiety, and Marci, an outspoken feminist, are outraged to discover that someone has used 'ugly black rectangle' to expurgate classroom copies of Jane Yolen's historical novel The Devil's Arithmetic. Pennsylvania sixth graders battle classroom censorship in this uplifting middle grade novel by King (The Year We Fell From Space).

Attack of the black rectangles