Property of the Rebel Librarian by Allison Varnes, 275 pages. Random House, 2018. $17
Language: G (0 swears); Mature Content: G; Violence: G.
BUYING ADVISORY: MS - ESSENTIAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH
June has very conservative parents who are alarmed when June comes home from school with a book they think is too scary. They immediately jump to action and have the school librarian dismissed and begin the process of removing all books with anything questionable from the shelves. June then has to navigate her desire to please her parents with her compulsion to read and on top of that she is having relationship drama with her best friend and a boy.
This is a very fast paced book at an easy to read reading level. While exaggerated (think Footloose, the movie), the topics brought up in this book are fun and compelling to think about. Is censorship okay? Why do we read? Why do we want to do things we aren’t allowed to do? This book would be a great book for an adult/youth bookclub.
Jen Wecker, HS English Teacher
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