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'Today's kids are a lot more sophisticated': Jean Reynolds on book banning and standards
The Ledger via Yahoo News· 3 months ago“If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.”...
Teen shelves half empty at Hamilton East as library conducts $300K board-pushed book review
IndyStar | The Indianapolis Star via Yahoo News· 1 year agoUpdate: A spokeswoman for the Hamilton East Public Library said Captain America comics and other...
Amid protest at Spartanburg library, SC senator says 'sexual identity' books should be moved
Spartanburg Herald-Journal via Yahoo News· 2 years agoState Sen. Josh Kimbrell of Spartanburg called on Spartanburg County Public Libraries to move books...
LGBTQ books are being banned from schools. Here's how kids can still read them.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoEarlier this year, the Brooklyn Public Library decided to give teens anywhere in the United States...
National effort to label schools' library books pornography takes root in Polk County
The Ledger via Yahoo News· 1 year agoBARTOW – A review of the complaint forms filed with Polk County Public Schools regarding 16 books,...
Reach Out and Read - Making the brain-books connection
Greenville News via Yahoo News· 8 months agoMary Margaret Flowers doesn’t know that the board books she loves are helping her develop language...
Centuries of book bans haven't discouraged desire to read
Carlsbad Current-Argus via Yahoo News· 2 years agoI recently visited a new Albuquerque library in the heart of the International District. I gave some...
Abcarian: Want a good book? Try one your 9th grader isn't allowed to read
LA Times via Yahoo News· 5 months ago"Gender Queer" and other books banned in schools in some counties in Florida. (Carolyn Cole / Los...
'Poetry chose me': Iowa City’s Dan Campion lets the currents of verse flow in new book
Iowa City Press-Citizen via Yahoo News· 2 years agoLightning struck Dan Campion more than a half century ago as he sat in his high school English class...
The “Muse Squad” Author Visited Her Child’s School Library and Discovered This Upsetting New Reality
The Oprah Magazine via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMuse Squad Author on Book Bans Os Tartarouchos - Getty Images Last month, during a parent conference...