Scars by cheryl rainfield7/8/2023 I put strong-girl and LGBTQ characters into every book I write. I draw on my abuse and trauma experience for every book I write–it’s important to me to encourage healing and hope, and to break silence–but I also write to entertain and to move people. I write the books I needed as a teen and couldn’t find. Want to fight against book banning and censorship? Join, read their Action Kit, National Coalition Against Censorship’s (NCAC) Book Censorship Action Kit, and read PENAmerica’s 2022 report on the increasing book bans.įind more resources about book bans and challenges If you don’t like a book you have the right to keep your kid from reading it but not all the other kids & teens who need it. Kids and teens need to see themselves in books to know they’re not alone, especially traumatized & marginalized teens. It goes against the freedom to read and is censorship. Do you know of an instance where SCARS was banned or challenged? Please let me know. These are only the book challenges I know of because they were mentioned in news articles or someone told me. SCARS was challenged at Timber Creek school district in Florida. SCARS was challenged at Manatee County in Florida.Īpril 2023. Tammany Parish Library system, Covington, LA, with 79 titles under review.Ģ022. SCARS was challenged at Horry County School libraries, South Carolina, by Moms for Liberty of Horry County along with 76 other books.ĭec 22, 2022.
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