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Earlier this month, we reported on an appeal sent to the Walla Walla, Washington, school district, following the Library Materials Committee decision to keep four books on shelves. The board met last week to consider the appeal and agreed to keep The Bluest Eye, All Boys Aren’t Blue, Gender Queer, and The Hate U Give available. The first full board meeting following the decision happened Tuesday night. The room was packed with both those in opposition to that decision — a minority — and those who were in favor of...

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The Rainbow Roundtable, a subsection of the American Library Association, is the “oldest professional association for LGBTQIA+ people in the United States.” It runs Rainbow Book Month every June, as well as annually awarding the Stonewall Book Awards. Their Over the Rainbow committee also selects a list of the top 10 queer books every year in all genres and formats. This year, they considered 332 titles, and here are their picks. The committee stated, In a year which saw more book challenges than any other, largely concerning books with queer...

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2022 is the inaugural year of the Science + Literature Awards, which are put on by a partnership between The National Book Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The awards are given to books that “that deepen readers’ understanding of science and technology,” whether that is through fiction or nonfiction. The winning authors receive $10,000, and three books were honored: You can find out more about the award and this year’s winners at AP News. Find more news and stories of interest from the book world in Breaking in Books....

Rickie Farah, a 4th grade teacher in Texas, was voted the school’s Teacher of the Year in 2021. That same year, a student took home a book from her classroom library called This Book Is Anti-Racist, by Tiffany Jewell. The student’s parent, Sarah Muns, objected to the book and posted about it on social media. Though Farah agreed to stop carrying the title, Muns didn’t think this was enough, and claimed Farah “bullied” her daughter for taking the book without asking. Muns first took her complaint to administrators, who found...

A pair of white women calling themselves “For Our Kids Walla Walla” is staging its second pre-school board meeting public prayer session tomorrow, Wednesday, February 9, in order to create support for removing numerous books from the Walla Walla school district’s shelves. The women filed a reconsideration request for Gender Queer, All Boys Aren’t Blue, The Hate U Give, and The Bluest Eye. After following the procedures outlined in the school district’s reconsideration process, the Library Materials Committee voted to keep the books on shelves. Both women filed an appeal...

YALSA, the Young Adult Library Services Association (part of the American Library Association), has announced their 2022 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adult Readers list. They discussed 76 audiobooks out this year that will appeal to young adult readers, as well as posting their top 10 titles of the year. The winning audiobooks are: Apple: Skin to the Core by Eric Gansworth, read by the author Chlorine Sky by Mahogany L. Browne, read by the author Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas, narrated by Dion Graham Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley, narrated by...