While still coping with her parents' sudden divorce and having to start at a new school midway through her senior year, Noor and two new friends take a stand against book bans at their small-town Illinois high school.
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Banned Together
Our Fight for Readers' Rights
A collection of fiction, memoir, poetry, graphic narratives, essays and other genres explores book bans through various lenses and empowers teens to fight back, in an anthology featuring the voices of 15 diverse award-winning authors and…- Horrified when her draconian principal bans all awareness-raising and issue-centric books from the school library, passionate bibliophile Clara teams up with the student council president and other friends to start an underground library.
- Working at her family's independent bookstore during the summer before she leaves for college, Madeline Moore is determined to make the store succeed when she discovers that her crush, Jasper, works at the competing chain bookstore across the street.
- Shoshanna Greenburg loves her job at the bookstore, Once Upon, until Jake Kaplan joins the staff, a handsome non-reader who challenges her for a bonus she needs.
- When 16-year-old Marcos travels to Cartagena, Colombia, to scatter his late father's ashes, he strikes up a friendship with Camilo, a boy his age who works as a local taxi driver and shares Marcos' love for the novel ''One Hundred Years of…
- Documents the gripping true story of the South Korean author’s student days under the authoritarian regime of the early 1980s, describing how she defied state censorship laws by joining an underground banned book club to read great works of…
- Charged with treason after accusing the principessa’s powerful brother of stealing from the city, Cinzia manages to escape and works with the principessa’s daughter to expose the truth, following a whisper network of girls who empower them to change…
- Marnie Plummer is a bookish, lonely girl with a chip on her shoulder. There’s nothing she cares about more than her favorite book series. When it miraculously turns out that the world of the books is actually real, and they need a Chosen One to come…
- Discovered practicing alchemy by apprentice Ramsay Thorne, Ash must help her find a sacred text of extraordinary power--a journey that forces him to discover his own definition of true power and how far he will go to seize it.
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