Society of Secret Library Friends Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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New on the banned lists: “Jack (not Jackie)” by Erica Silverman and illustrated by Holly Hatam. In this picture book, a big sister realizes that her little sister, Jackie, doesn't act like other girls and wants to be treated like a brother and go by Jack. https://t.co/BM4uzixVUn

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Book recommendation: “Finally Seen” by Kelly Yang. This middle grade novel tells the story of a young girl who leaves China to be with her family in America, and the power of being seen in a library book. @kellyyanghk https://t.co/fYCwSacw2k

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Recommended reading: "Attack of the Black Rectangles" by Amy Sarig King. In this middle grade novel, Mac discovers some words are blacked out all the classroom copies of a book his class is reading, and he decides to push back on censorship and intolerance. https://t.co/IgPmzte6br

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Book recommendation: “Banned Book Club” by Kim Hyun Sook, Ryan Estrada, and Hyung-Ju Ko. This book tells the true story of a young woman who joins a banned book club during South Korea’s Fifth Republic, a military regime that used censorship as a tool of control. @BannedBookClubs https://t.co/TfKfObBOTh

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Allegations that books affirming or featuring LGBTQ+ people are pornography is not new, and they’ve been debunked before. Here’s an article from 2021 where someone alleged “This Book is Gay” by Juno Dawson to be “hard-core pornography to children” https://t.co/iYRiOUt3Zs