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Girls on the go! Ready to join the fight against censorship? When you join "A Girl On The Go Banned Book Club," you're not only helping to support authors and their work, but you're supporting the First Amendment, too!

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The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), together with Lyrasis, launched their own Banned Book Club in direct response to the banned book crisis facing readers across the country. Its mission is simple: to ensure all readers have access to the books they want to read.

Readers can now freely access over 1,300 titles that have been forcibly removed from schools and libraries through the Palace Marketplace e-reader app. And it’s really easy to do:

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this month's book

brown girl dreaming

by: jacqueline woodson

In vivid poems that reflect the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, an award-winning author shares what it was like to grow up in the 1960s and 1970s in both the

North and the South.

(Non-Fiction, Young Adult)

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next month's book

parable of the sower

by: octavia e. butler

When global climate change and economic crises lead to social chaos in the early 2020s, California becomes full of dangers, from pervasive water shortage to masses of vagabonds who will do anything to live to see another day. Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father, family, and neighbors, sheltered from the surrounding anarchy. In a society where any vulnerability is a risk, she suffers from hyperempathy, a debilitating sensitivity to others' emotions. Precocious and clear-eyed, Lauren must make her voice heard in order to protect her loved ones from the imminent disasters her small community stubbornly ignores.

(Fiction, Afrofuturistic/Feminist)

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