Review: Ban This Book

Ban This Book by Alan Gratz
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I can't praise this children's chapter book highly enough! Although the characters are (primarily) fourth graders, the content abd philosophy can appeal to middle school, YA, and adults. Whose flame doesn't ignite to combat Banned Books? Certainly mine does.


This novel is a multicultural, divergent, subtly philosophical treatise in stimulating fictional style of the importance of celebrating Reading Divergence and the freedom to read. When a classmate's mother decides to remove certain books from the elementary school's well-stocked library, fourth-grader Amy Anne starts a crusade which soon blossoms into a campaign to free the books. It's a glorious event to witness.

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