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Americus
Americus | MK Reed, Jonathan David Hill
5 posts | 7 read | 5 to read
Oklahoma teen Neal Barton stands up for his favorite fantasy series, The Chronicles of Apathea Ravenchilde, when conservative Christians try to bully the town of Americus into banning it from the public library.
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Michollio
Americus | MK Reed, Jonathan David Hill
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Preach, brother.

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writerlibrarian
Americus | MK Reed, Jonathan David Hill
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A good story. It's about books, reading, freedom of reading what you want, imagination. The graphics are a bit caricatural but fit the tone of the story. Freedom to read, freedom to not read. But not the right to impose your views and faith to others. Freedom to find an escape in books. #booked2019 #summer #graphicnovel

Cinfhen That‘s heartening...progress🙌🏻 5y
writerlibrarian I'm a public librarian in Quebec where banning books was the norm in the first half of the 20th century. The catholic church had a stronghold on what people could read. It all crumbled after the 1960s. I've had less than 5 demands to take out books in 25 years as a librarian. None were taken out, a few were moved from the children's collection to the YA collection because the series had changed focus and were more YA. 5y
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Krisjericho
Americus | MK Reed, Jonathan David Hill
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Story - five stars. I mean, it's a librarian and a book-loving kid fighting the people who think they should have a say over what other people should read. All the stars. Art - three stars. It just wasn't my cup of tea. Also, I kept putting off reading this book because I found the cover so unappealing. Totally worth the read, but I wish they would redesign the cover to make it more appealing to the intended audience.

writerlibrarian Thanks I just found my graphic novel for booked 2019 summer. 😁 5y
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WanderingBookaneer
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Went to drop off 2 books at the library and picked up 10. 🤷🏻‍♀️ #BookwormMath

EchoLogical 😆 6y
valeriegeary As one does. 🤗 6y
MEGR I‘ve purposely not gone to the library this week for that exact reason 🤪😬 6y
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Ashley85 Always how it is 🤷🏽‍♀️ 6y
JillPill Americus is so good! 6y
trueisa4letterword I loved The Best We Could Do!!! 6y
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JillPill
Americus | MK Reed, Jonathan David Hill
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This book is about banning books in a small town library. I went through something similar when I was a teenager about Harry Potter and it is reminding me a lot of that time

#Americus #MKReed #JonathanHill

revenge4porgy This reminds me of the graphic novel version of Fahrenheit 451. 7y
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