It is of little surprise the same tactics of interruption, of uncontextualized passage reading, and targeting of books by and about Black, Brown, and queer people are subjected to challenges by white parents seeing their voices given power in neighboring districts. The district has removed a number of titles, has had the police called about books on shelf, and had a board member just resign after being unable to exert more authority in book removal. Notably, Leander Independent School District is continuing its battle over a wide list of young adult and adult titles in its middle and high school. Her behavior at the school board meeting aligns with her political stance and actions, and it’s the students paying the price.Ĭentral Texas has become a hotspot for book challenges over the last few years. She was also issued an assault citation after pushing a Nordstrom Rack employee after refusing to put on a mask. “A district must, however, exercise its discretion in a manner consistent with the First Amendment,” said the spokesperson.Įarlier in the year, Kara Bell ran an unsuccessful campaign for a seat on the LTISD. However, books which contain vulgarity may be pulled for that reason. A spokesperson for the board told KXAN that though the board has oversight in materials made available in school libraries - those facilities do serve in loco parentis, unlike public libraries - they would not remove materials which would deny ideas to students about which the district itself disagrees. Includes a fascinating author's note detailing the process of research and writing about voices that have largely been excluded from historical accounts.LTISD took this action in order to follow their policies of materials review. Race, romance, and family converge in this riveting novel that transplants Romeo and Juliet to a bitterly segregated Texas town. Can their love survive both prejudice and tragedy? Naomi and Wash dare to defy the rules, and the New London school explosion serves as a ticking time bomb in the background. But sometimes the attraction between two people is so powerful it breaks through even the most entrenched color lines.
These teens know the town's divisive racism better than anyone.
*NOTE: This book will not be stocked or shipped from me, this will be shipped from an indie bookstore warehouse so it will not be giftwrapped like my other books, combining this with other books that I ship myself will result in a double charge for shipping ($11 for media mail vs $5.50) because you are technically paying for two shipping labels*Ī dangerous forbidden romance rocks a Texan oil town in 1937, when segregation was a matter of life and death.Ī Top Ten Most Challenged Book of the Year
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