Tag Archives: banned books
I read banned books
Tomorrow kicks off the official start of Banned Books Week. If you have been following my blog, you have probably gotten the impression this is something I am passionate about. The impression is right. Censorship is NO GOOD. It angers me every time I hear of a person, or a group of people, demanding a [...]
Posted in reading Also tagged Dr. Seuss, Jim C. Hines, Kathryn Magendie, Nathan Bransford, Write to Done Leave a comment
What are the responsibilities of a YA author?
Continuing our discussion of banned books (and gearing up for Banned Book Week), check out this awesome post by Laurie Halse Anderson about schools trying to ban her books. The excerpts from her readers’ letters are especially powerful. So, I had started writing a different post today (which will now be posted tomorrow), but after [...]
Posted in writing Also tagged craptastic, Elana Johnson, Jamie Harrington, Laurie Halse Anderson, writing, YA 4 Comments
Personality Toolkit: Drive
First off, sorry for not posting this yesterday. The interwebs decided they hated me and wouldn’t let me submit. Urg. As many of you already know, Ellen Hopkins is feeling the burn of book banners. She was set for a school visit in OK; when a couple days before the visit, one parent demanded her [...]






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