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The parent deemed the book propaganda and believed the school was teaching racism by including the book in an anti-racism curriculum. Here is the letter the parent wrote which resulted in FRONT DESK being banned in Plainedge School District Long Islandmid read-aloud.

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6 This was the second time the book was challenged as it had previously been present in a list of banned books of the Central York High School alongside.

. Winner of the 2019 Asian Pacific American Award for Literature New York Times Bestseller. Has been banned by a school district in New York. Books about the immigrant experience are valid.

Im so terribly heartbroken to hear that FRONT DESK has been banned in. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman 1995 The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 1999 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 2003 Looking for Alaska by John Green 2005 Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher 2007 The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 2008 Before a book can be banned it first is challenged. Mia Tang has a secret.

Front Desk the award-winning middle-grade debut novel of Kelly Yang published by Scholastic was reportedly being read aloud in a fifth-grade classroom of. Lifestyle Kelly Yang is the author of Front Desk. A book written by an Asian American woman who lived in the Bay Area for many years has been banned by a school district in New York.

The parents stated that they did not think it was the school districts responsibility to teach anti-racism that it lies with parents to. She doesnt live in a house like her friends. No books on subjects involving race religion gender or any other controversial subject seriously what else is left.

Yesterday at 808 AM. The author Kelly Yang addresses racism and bias against immigrants in Front Desk a middle-grade book challenged by parents Melanie and Michael Cohen in the Lower Merion School District in Pennsylvania. Right in the midst of Banned Books Week which concluded on Saturday a childrens novel about a Chinese-immigrant experience entered the center of controversy in a small New York school district.

The book was not removed from the schools library and was allowed again to be used for read aloud but parents were given the possibility to opt-out their children from reading Front Desk. She doesnt have a dog. Mia is a ten year old girl who moved to America from China when she was eight years old.

Actually a lot of secrets. The book wasnt at the center of a ban but rather the center of attempted censorship the book wasnt actively being pulled from shelves it was. It shows stories of immigrants the story of a ten year old running a motel and the hardships of the Tang family.

Books in order to inform the public about censorship efforts that affect libraries and schools. Banned Books Week is an annual event that brings. Here is the letter the parent wrote which resulted in FRONT DESK being banned in Plainedge School District Long Islandmid read-aloud.

Photo and book jacket images courtesy of Scholastic. The novel Front Desk by Kelly Yang was a very interesting and exciting book. Instead Mia and her parents live and work in a motel.

This is a complete list of book titles that were banned challenged or restricted during the year. No books on subjects involving race religion gender or any other controversial subject seriously what else is. Title Author 10000 Dresses Marcus Ewert.

Last week Kelly Yangs middle grade New York Times bestselling and award-winning book Front Desk was stopped as a classroom read aloud in Plainedges Eastplain Elementary School. OIF tracked 156 challenges to library school and university materials and services in 2020. Crafts author visit was canceled and the books pulled pending review Meanwhile in Plainedge NY parents objected to a fifth grade read-aloud of Kelly Yangs Front Desk.

In October author Kelly Yang received notification that a parent had filed a complaint about the use of her book Front Desk in a schools curriculum. Im so terribly heartbroken to hear that FRONT DESK has been banned in this school district Yang wrote on Twitter.

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