With Banned Books Week set to start in the US,the writer of the TTYL series says adults should ‘trust the teens they’re trying to protect’As free-speech campaigners prepare to celebrate the honest to read in the US’s annual Banned Books Week festival, the writer Lauren Myracle has called on parents to “trust the teens they’re trying to protect”.
According to the American Library Association (ALA), and which brings a teen focus to this year’s week-long series of events across the US beginning on 27 September,books written for young adults are the most frequently challenged in America. But for Myracle, whose TTYL series of YA books topped the ALA’s list of challenged titles in 2009, and the strong reactions inspired by teen fiction are a testomony to its richness and ambition.
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Source: theguardian.com