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Books on LGBTQ+ topics are currently being restricted in schools across Florida due to proposed legislation. Educators share how access to similar books helped them understand their sexual identities growing up.
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At the end of the year, when state testing looms and class lists need to be made for fall, Pinellas County Schools is requiring its teachers to scan every book in their classroom libraries for school media specialists to review. This process must be completed by May 26 and is required to comply with state law.Similar scenes are playing out across Florida.
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Aubrey Gordon is a well-informed voice on anti-fat bias as well as misinformation surrounding weight loss. She talks to us about her new book You Just Need to Lose Weight and 19 Other Myths about Fat People.
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For Banned Books Week, we show you how teens can access a giant, free library.
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A nonprofit notes that over the 2021–22 school year, what started as modest school-level activity to challenge and remove books in schools grew into a full-fledged social and political movement.
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Life has changed for all of us in some ways over the past two years as the coronavirus pandemic has impacted the world. Explore what these times have been like for writers, who generally do their work at home, or in a sort of isolation.
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Antoine Wilson’s latest novel, Mouth to Mouth, is a taut, compelling read that is already on many best-of lists for this year. Two old college friends meet up in an airport and one proceeds to spin out the tale of his long and complicated life.
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Mona Awad discusses her brilliant novel ALL'S WELL, about pain, power, and Shakespeare. This conversation took place at the Miami Book Fair.
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Life has changed for all of us in some ways over the past two years as the coronavirus pandemic has impacted the world. Explore what these times have been like for writers, who generally do their work at home, or in a sort of isolation.