7/7/2023 0 Comments The book thief full book![]() The majority of the books that were targeted do not even have a kiss in them. My books were removed because they were, according to the sole parent who made the challenge, “adult romance that should not be on school shelves.” It is worth noting I do not write adult romance. The 92 books fell into three categories: those with mature content, those written by BIPOC authors, and those written by LGBTQ authors. In Martin Country School District, 92 books were pulled from the school library shelves. ![]() But this week, something truly egregious happened. As sad as it seems, I was getting used to the emails from PEN America’s Jonathan Friedman telling me that yet again, my novel was under attack. In the past six months, my books have been banned dozens of times in dozens of school districts. We were testing it out for the first time when the notification popped on my computer screen: about yet another parent complaining that my novel was inappropriate for high school students. ![]() The director was determined to physically set a prop book on fire each night because of how shocking and powerful it was to watch. I was in the U.K., in rehearsals for a musical I’d co-written based on Markus Zusak’s novel The Book Thief, which is set in Nazi Germany. The seventh time I learned that my novel Nineteen Minutes was being banned in a school district, I was watching a book burning. ![]()
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