by Maren Williams • • Comments Off on Victory in Riverside! The Fault in Our Stars Returned to Middle Schools
Last night the school board in Riverside, California voted 3-2 to restore John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars to middle school libraries, after it had been banned by a staff review committee in September. CBLDF and other members of…
by Betsy Gomez • • Comments Off on Challenge to Jodi Picoult Book Struck Down in Pennsylvania
Earlier this week, the Kennett Consolidated School District school board in Pennsylvania protected the freedom to read by voting 7 -1 to keep Jodi Picoult’s Nineteen Minutes on shelves in the high school library. Picoult’s widely-prasied book focuses on a school shooting…