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Posts tagged ‘middle grade fiction’

This week’s book chat, in which The 9YO and I talk about censorship

I still get a little thrill whenever I see my daughter walk into the house with a Judy Blume book. Back in the before times, when I was just a young kid in Texas, there was a bit of a dust-up about Judy Blume’s book, Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret, which resulted in my school librarian banning all Judy Blume books. It was my earliest experience of censorship (and its limitations), but it wouldn’t be my last.

What’s The Nine-Year-Old reading this week?

Our mostly-weekly survey of the tidbits that cross The Nine-Year-Old’s desk. This week, The Nine-Year-Old reviews Missy Piggle-wiggle and the Whatever Cure by Ann M Martin, Mammoths and Mastodons by Cheryl Bardoe, and Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar.