Published 14 days ago

Book called "Ban This Book" is now banned in Florida.

The Indian River County School Board in Florida banned "Ban This Book" by Alan Gratz, going against their district book-review committee's decision to keep it.
The book, written by Alan Gatz in 2017, follows a 4th-grader dealing with book banning, and was found in two elementary schools and one middle school in the district.
Despite opposition, three out of five school board members voted to remove the book from school libraries.

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The Guardian

Book about book bans banned by Florida school board

Ban This Book by Alan Gratz banned in Indian River county after opposition from parents linked to Moms for Liberty

15 days ago·London, United Kingdom

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USA Today

'Challenges our authority': School board in Florida bans book about book bans

One board member calls the children's novel — "Ban This Book" — a "liberal Marxist propaganda piece."

14 days ago·United States

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The Washington Post

A Florida school district banned a book about banned books

The Indian River County school district banned Alan Gratz’s “Ban This Book,” about a fourth-grader determined to return removed titles to her school’s shelves.

13 days ago

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CBS News

Book called "Ban This Book" is now banned in Florida. Its author has this to say about the irony.

Author Alan Gratz says his book might get a sales uptick from the notoriety, but most banned books and their authors suffer negative outcomes.

13 days ago

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Raw Story

Florida school board bans book about book bannings

A book about book bannings has itself been banned by a school board in Florida at the behest of right-wing Moms for Liberty activists.The Guardian reports that "Ban This Book" by author Alan Gratz has been removed from libraries in Florida's Indian River county school district after the school board...

14 days ago·United States

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Quotidiano Nazionale

'Ban This Book' censorship book banned by a Florida school board

Miami, June 17, 2024 — When Amy Anne Ollinger discovers that her favorite book has been banned from the school library, she decides not to give up by founding a secret library for censored books in her locker. So begins Alan Gratz's children's book, “Ban This Book” (in Italian “Forbidden to read!” , published by Mondadori in 2019), now officially banned by the Indian River County school board in Florida. The character of Amy is a nine-year-old g…

9 days ago·Italy

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