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Concluding My Challenged Books Challenge

9/24/2021

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Back in April, I read the American Library Association's list of the Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2020, and I decided that I was going to read and review all ten of those books. As I made my way through these books, I took the time to think deeply about each of them; I considered why people have had concerns about and made complaints against each book, whether any of these concerns or complaints were worth consideration, and just what goes into selecting books for suggested or required reading. These 10 books encompass a wide variety of literature: children's, adolescent, young adult, and adult are all represented; fiction and nonfiction; old and new. The only completely unifying thread across all of these books is that they were challenged heavily last year--individuals and groups lodged formal requests or demands to remove them from curriculums or libraries.
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Elizabeth Reviews: House of Salt and Sorrows

9/7/2021

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Front Cover of House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig. Title and byline in gold lettering is placed over a dark view of stone and seawater
House of Salt and Sorrows
by Erin A. Craig
​Genre: YA, fairy-tale, fantasy
​First published 2019
There were twelve of us: the Thaumas Dozen. Now we stood in a small line, my seven sisters and I, and I couldn't help but wonder if there was a ring of truth to the grim speculations. Had we somehow angered the gods? Had a darkness branded itself on our family, taking us out one by one? Or was it simply a series of terrible and unlucky coincidences?
                                                            p. 4

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Elizabeth Reviews: The Hate U Give

9/3/2021

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The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas front cover
The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
Genre: realistic fiction, YA
First published 2017
Khalil drops the brush in the door and cranks up his stereo, blasting an old rap song Daddy has played a million times. I frown. "Why you always listening to that stuff?"

"Man, get outta here! Tupac was the truth."

"Yeah, twenty years ago."
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"Nah, even now. Like, check this." He points at me, which means he's about to go into one of his Khalil philosophical moments. "'Pac said Thug Life stood for 'The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everybody.'"
                                                          p. 17

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