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Look for Alaska All You Want, You Won’t Find It In Sumner County, TN

by Erin Millar May 9, 2012 1 Comment

On the heels of the public reading at University of Oregon protesting an Arizona school board’s ban on multiple books, Sumner County in Tennessee has banned John Green’s Looking for Alaska from schools’ curriculum.  This is the second county in Tennessee to ban Looking for Alaska from its schools, the first being Knox County. There [...]

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Taking a Stand Against Book Banning

by Erin Millar May 4, 2012 2 Comments

On January 1, 2012, while everyone else in the world was celebrating the new year with toasts and food and friends and family, the Tucson Unified School District in Arizona was ringing it in by banning a bunch of books. Happy New Year. But this was beyond what book banning and censorship usually involves.  This [...]

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Kids On Books

by Erin Millar May 2, 2012 2 Comments

In case my previous blog posts haven’t made this apparent yet, I love me some literacy.  And I love the organizations and efforts to spread literacy through the world. Knowing that, it’s really no wonder that I got all fangirly excited about an organization in Denver, CO called Burning Through Pages. What got my attention [...]

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Great Things for New Beginnings

by Kara O'Brien May 1, 2012 Leave a comment

Good news from the New Beginnings charter school, check it out!

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Spreading the Stories

by Erin Millar April 25, 2012 Leave a comment

If there’s one thing all of us here know, it’s the power of stories. We know how it feels to be so immersed in the lives of beloved characters that it’s like we’re living the story with them. We’re familiar with cheering on the good guys and hoping that the villain gets what’s coming to [...]

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The Reaping is Color Blind

by Erin Millar April 9, 2012 5 Comments

Likely, you’ve noticed that the books that get the most press attention are the ones that tend to be targeted by book challengers. So color me shocked when The Hunger Games landed itself on ALA’s Most Banned and Challenged Books list for 2011, coming in at a very respectable number three. It’s not the first [...]

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Take a Book, Return a Book

by Erin Millar April 4, 2012 2 Comments

It’s a concept that anyone who has ever used a public library understands–take a book, return a book. It’s been drilled into your head ever since you got your first library card, or got the chance to check a book out of your school library. If you take a book, but don’t return it, you [...]

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It’s Time to Share YOUR Story

by Erin Millar October 27, 2011 3 Comments

In less that a week, it will be time for one of my favorite events of the year–National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). At midnight on November 1, thousands of participants will sit down at their computers, typewriters, notebooks, or whatever their weapon of choice is and will try to write a fifty-thousand-word novel in just thirty days. If it sounds insane, that’s because it is. But it’s also incredibly freeing and it makes you sit down and write whatever story you happen to have in you.

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Gay in YA

by Erin Millar September 29, 2011 4 Comments

Imagine all the books which have opened your eyes to a different world. Imagine if they were never published or didn’t exist or, worse, existed in a censored world where characters were shaped to fit into the tiny box some publishers want to put something as complex and wonderful as the human experience.

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The Sorting Continues…

by Pam Harris June 2, 2011 2 Comments

My Chapter NYDA is helping the New Beginnings Charter School build their Imagine Better Library. We have been there once before to help sort the books generously donated by HPA members and Chapters, but there are so many that a second sorting session was in order. Since our last visit, even more books had arrived. We had our work cut out for us.

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