https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/07/opinion/sexual-assualt-book-ban.html
There's something consistently missing in the national conversation these days about book banning: "the voices of those children and teenagers who see their experiences in print and finally realize they aren't alone," writes author Patricia McCormick. At the start of this school year, Patricia's novel "Sold " was one of the most banned books in the United States⬇️
"disrespectful" to the teenagers who want, and in some cases need, to read it, Patricia writes. "I've visited classrooms and juvenile detention centers all over the country since the book came out in 2006. At nearly all the visits, students come forward to say that they have been sexually abused or are being sexually abused - and that seeing their experience rendered in a book finally emboldened them to say so… 11mo