500 Character book report on book #98 of the ALA's Top 100 Most Banned and Challenged Books: 2010-2019. "Tricks" by Ellen Hopkins Young Adult Poetry
The book details the lives of five fictional teens as they fall into sexual slavery. They live desperate lives and discover how exploitive people can be. Hard to read due to the level of despair. The author is (thankfully) vague in describing sex acts. The book has recently climbed to the third most banned book on the ALA list. 4.5/5
500 Character book report on book #85 of the ALA's Top 100 Most Banned and Challenged Books: 2010-2019. "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers. Young Adult Fiction
Richie Perry is a seventeen year old black kid from Harlem. With few other options and a younger brother relying on him, he joins the army and gets shipped out to fight in Vietnam. An unglorified story of his experiences with fear, loss of comrades and killing another human. Challenged in Ohio for obscene language. 5/5
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Thanks to author and Write the World Senior Program manager Brittany Collins.
I’m #currentlyreading Fallout, the third book in the Crank series by Ellen Hopkins. This book is from the perspectives of three of Kristina Snow’s five children, Hunter, Autumn, and Summer. They all have different fathers and live with different guardians.
I’m also reading A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson. Pippa (Pip) Fitza-Amobi is working on her senior capstone project. Her topic of choice? To research the roles of print, televised, and social media in police investigations using the case of Andie Bell as a case study.
Five years ago, Andie Bell went missing and then was presumed to be dead when her body was not located. Her boyfriend, Sal Singh, is believed to be the murderer but this could not be confirmed because he was found dead in the woods, presumably from suicide. The police and practically the whole town believe he murdered Andie. Pip does not.
In case you missed it, here's a great post by @herhandsmyhands talking about Stephen King's comment on banned books. This post goes over the many reasons why his solution - just get the book somewhere else - is an extremely privileged view:
Every fucking thing is politics: high school kids in the Blackest district in Tennessee had the chance to attend a talk with the authors of His Name IS George Floyd, a book about the man, his murder, and the racial movement and backlash it sparked.
They didn't get to take the book out of the library, or buy a copy, or hear excerpts--and the authors could not talk about the racist issues in the book.
The very tragic irony here is that the only real child abuse was committed by this #MomsForLiberty mother, who's just thrust her own daughter into the middle a very public and humiliating spectacle. #florida#bannedbooks
"Two members of Moms for Liberty, a #rightwing activist group, have reported several Florida school librarians to law enforcement. They claimed they had evidence that librarians were distributing 'pornography' to minors and requested that law enforcement officers be dispatched. This represents a serious escalation of the tactics deployed by members of Moms for Liberty against school librarians."
Please vote today if you are in the US. School board elections matter! If you are unsure who to vote for, NAACP and the League of Women Voters have information about local candidates. These folks really care about candidate quality and issues. #voting#bannedbooks#libraries#censorship#localelections