It's just a quiet disappearance." Bans are a call to action, opponents say But if something is missing, you don't know. "In a library, kids can stumble across something they didn't know they needed until they picked it up and read it. "I get a lot of 'Oh, your book has been banned - congratulations, it's going to be a bestseller now.' But that's not what happens to 999 out of 1,000 books. She says the books, which include portrayals of physical abuse, sexual assault and sexual acts, "protect kids by arming them with knowledge." But the bottom line, she says, is that fewer kids are reading and buying her books. Arnold calls that a gross misrepresentation. Several of her books, including Damsel, Red Hood, Infandous and What Girls are Made Of, have been banned or challenged for their sexually explicit scenes that critics have assailed as pornography. They didn't know the book existed."Īuthor Elana K. "Their father held them, and they both thanked us so much. "One family came in with a teen and picked up This Book Is Gay and just cried," Tritt recalls. Most of those books were LGBTQ- or race-related.
The free speech group PEN America says book bans in public school libraries this year are on pace to top last year's high mark, when there were more than 2,500 instances of book bans in U.S.
"If a kid needs this book, we want them to have it." A new front in the book ban battle "My reaction was, 'Uh, no! I cannot allow this to happen,' " Tritt recalls. The book nook was set up by Florida teacher Adam Tritt and Foundation 451, a group he launched last year after he was ordered to remove banned books from his classroom in nearby Palm Bay. "This is my favorite series ever," exclaimed one young woman browsing the titles.Ībout 150 books were lent out that first night. It was opening night for the shop's "Banned Book Nook," and customers with ice cream cones in one hand helped themselves to novels, memoirs and biographies with the other. But it wasn't the Cherry Garcia and Chunky Monkey drawing the extra customers.Ī crowd gathered in the back corner of the store, browsing through newly installed, rainbow-colored shelves displaying multiple copies of some 65 books currently banned from various Florida schools. It was much busier than usual on a recent Friday at a Ben & Jerry's in Melbourne, Fla. Florida teacher Adam Tritt and his group, Foundation 451, led the launch of a "Banned Book Nook" at a Ben & Jerry's ice cream store in Melbourne, Fla.
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