![]() ![]() ![]() Debut author Varnes’s painting of overbearing parents occasionally feels over the top (their book rewrites extend to pasting over fart jokes), but the farcical take also drives home important points about bureaucracy, oversight, and freedom. Then June discovers a Little Free Library on her walk to school. What follows is a massive book ban at Dogwood Middle School, and suddenly everything June loves-the librarian, books, an author visit-is gone. When a school witch hunt for anyone with banned books reveals June’s role, she must decide if she has the strength to fight for the right to read. It starts with one book deemed 'inappropriate' by June's parents. Her crush, Graham, has asked her out, but his participation in the censorship has her questioning their relationship, especially after she meets new book-loving friends. When June discovers a Little Free Library along a new route to school, and other kids learn that she has access to books, June soon finds herself running an underground library. Before she knows it, they’ve called a PTA meeting, removed books from the school library (“It’s called a book extraction,” her father says), and gotten the librarian suspended. When 12-year-old June’s father finds a library book he deems inappropriate among her belongings, her protective parents go on a censoring rampage, taking away the book and auditing her personal library-even, eventually, rewriting the end to Old Yeller. ![]()
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