The Indian River County school district banned Alan Gratz’s “Ban This Book,” about a fourth-grader determined to return removed titles to her school’s shelves.
Alan Gratz’s “Ban This Book” tells the tale of a fourth-grader’s quest to bring her favorite book back to the school library after officials had it removed.A parent involved in Moms for Liberty, a right-wing parents-rights group, submitted a complaint about the book in February, alleging that it depicted sexual conduct and was “teaching children to be social justice warriors.
Jennifer Pippin, the chair of the Indian River, Fla., chapter of Moms for Liberty who filed the complaint about “Ban This Book,” told The Post in text messages Wednesday that she wanted titles with “sexually explicit content” removed from schools. She said she complained about “Ban This Book” because it referenced other banned books with sexual content. PippinGratz said he wrote the book in 2017 to call attention to challenges against books, an issue he said was “relatively unseen” at the time.
“I thought it was ironic that this book is intentionally and overtly saying that school boards shouldn’t matter, only 9-year-olds and librarians should matter,” he said. “It doesn’t mean that I want to accept it,” he said. “It doesn’t mean that I won’t fight back against it.”
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