Ban This Book
Alan Gratz
Tom Doherty Associates
<p><b>"Readers, librarians, and all those books that have drawn a challenge have a brand new hero.... Stand up and cheer, book lovers. This one's for you." &#8212;Kathi Appelt, author of the Newbery Honor-winning <i>The Underneath</i></b></p><p>An inspiring tale of a fourth-grader who fights back when her favorite book is banned from the school library&#8212;by starting her own illegal locker library!</p><p>It all started the day Amy Anne Ollinger tried to check out her favorite book in the whole world, <i>From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler</i>, from the school library. That's when Mrs. Jones, the librarian, told her the bad news: her favorite book was banned! All because a classmate's mom thought the book wasn't appropriate for kids to read.</p><p> Amy Anne decides to fight back by starting a secret banned books library out of her locker. Soon, she finds herself on the front line of an unexpected battle over book banning, censorship, and who has the right to...</p>