![]() ![]() ![]() Meehan said some books on the list were deemed “too mature” for elementary school students, but “it’s not that individual specific titles are being challenged or there are specific objections.”Ī local TV news report on WJXT quoted Duval County Public Schools officials as disputing PEN’s characterization of the situation, saying that the books in question were neither banned nor challenged, but that they were under review.īut Meehan, citing information PEN America gathered from a public records request, said the district purchased the Essential Voices collection in 2021, then ordered the titles removed from shelves in January, with no information forthcoming since then about what the review process entails or why these books were targeted. Such actions by adults who should be celebrating and nurturing all children is so damaging and so unfair to children.” ![]() “It’s a slap in the face to people whose identities mirror those of the characters in those books, specifically children of color and LGBTQ children. ![]() She is a middle school English teacher and a parent of two kids. Will their paths cross Polonsky keeps the reader in suspense right up to the very end. “It’s frustrating and, frankly, dangerous, to secretly, quietly neglect to put certain books on shelves,” Polonsky wrote in a text message to the Forward. Ami Polonsky is the author of the critically-acclaimed Gracefully Grayson and Threads. Ami Polonsky has created endearing and resourceful young heroines and she artfully traces their separate and risky adventures in China. ![]()
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