![]() He has such a hard time that he becomes surly and contentious, and eventually gets into a fight at school that gets him suspended. Jeffrey is very close to his grandmother, and when she dies he has a really hard time dealing with. ![]() One of the other students in Amy Anne’s class is, like me, a die-hard Trek fan. I later got to write a young adult Star Trek novel that I actually got paid for- Starfleet Academy: The Assassination Game-but it’s not often that my Trek fandom crosses over with my books for young readers. The first novel I ever tried to get published was a Star Trek novel (Pocket Books didn’t buy it) and before I became a published kids book author, I wrote Star Trek fan fiction. There’s a lot I love about this book, but there’s one bit I especially love, because I got to work in a bit of my own fandom into the story. Amy Anne and her lieutenants wage a battle for the books that will make you laugh and pump your fists as they start a secret banned books locker library, make up ridiculous reasons to ban every single book in the library to make a point, and take a stand against censorship. Amy Anne is shy and soft-spoken, but don’t mess with her when it comes to her favorite book in the whole world. ![]() ![]() Konigsburg is challenged by a well-meaning parent and taken off the shelves of her school library. Here’s the publisher’s description:Ī fourth grader fights back when From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. ![]() Alan Gratz is joining us today with his novel Ban This Book. ![]()
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