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One of the Good Ones

by Erin Millar June 6, 2012 Leave a comment

“And I thought about books.  And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books.  A man had to think them up.  A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper…It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his throughts [...]

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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 3 Comments

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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