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Book about book bans banned by Florida school board
A book about book bans has been banned in a Florida school district. Ban This Book, a children’s book written by Alan Gratz, will no longer be available in the Indian River county school district since the school board voted to remove the book last month.
Gratz’s book, which came out in 2017, follows fourth-grader Amy Anne Ollinger as she tries to check out her favorite book. Ollinger is told by the librarian she cannot, because it was banned after a classmate’s parent thought it was inappropriate. She then creates a secret banned-books library, entering into “an unexpected battle over book banning, censorship, and who has the right to decide what she and her fellow students can read”, according to the book’s description on Gratz’s website.
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In a peculiar case of life imitating art, Jennifer Pippin, a parent in the coastal community, challenged the book. Pippin’s opposition is what prompted the school board to vote 3-2 in favor of removing it from shelves. The vote happened despite the district’s book-review committee vetting the work and deciding to keep it in schools.
Indian River county school board members disagreed with how Gratz’s book referred to other works that had been taken out of school, and accused it of “teaching rebellion of school-board authority”, according to the Tallahassee Democrat.
More: https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jun/11/florida-book-bans-book-banned
Gratz’s book, which came out in 2017, follows fourth-grader Amy Anne Ollinger as she tries to check out her favorite book. Ollinger is told by the librarian she cannot, because it was banned after a classmate’s parent thought it was inappropriate. She then creates a secret banned-books library, entering into “an unexpected battle over book banning, censorship, and who has the right to decide what she and her fellow students can read”, according to the book’s description on Gratz’s website.
*snip*
In a peculiar case of life imitating art, Jennifer Pippin, a parent in the coastal community, challenged the book. Pippin’s opposition is what prompted the school board to vote 3-2 in favor of removing it from shelves. The vote happened despite the district’s book-review committee vetting the work and deciding to keep it in schools.
Indian River county school board members disagreed with how Gratz’s book referred to other works that had been taken out of school, and accused it of “teaching rebellion of school-board authority”, according to the Tallahassee Democrat.
More: https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jun/11/florida-book-bans-book-banned
I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried!
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I saw the title and just knew this had to be a joke or a parody of some sort. WTF?!? Bunch of teeny tiny wannabe nobodies really got their panties in a bunch.
Using the school board's philosophy regarding rebellion against their “authority” will they go on to ban books on the American Revolution? How about the civil war? Or how about Jan. 6?
I can’t stand the hypocrisy!!!!
It was just too ridiculous not to share it with DU! 
I was not surprised to learn that Moms for Liberty were involved. I had to omit that part from the post due to the 4 paragraph limit, but it explains lot!
