Take a photo of a barcode or cover
jdgcreates 's review for:
Eleanor & Park
by Rainbow Rowell
An article (http://www.omaha.com/article/20130925/NEWS/130929202#.Ukbpg3CzFbA.twitter) about the author's event being cancelled due to parent complaints about the book ("which they viewed as “pornographic,” “sexually explicit” and too controversial for even a teenage audience"), made me pick it up to give it a go--nothing riles me up more than a small group of people censoring everyone's right to read.
Sadly, I was not in a YA mood, so I didn't get very far into this story, but what I did read seemed genuinely written and very important to cover for teens: domestic abuse, puberty, bullying, racism, friendship and connection, etc. I don't recall one f-bomb in the pages I covered, but I do recall a lot of heartbreak and the expectation that these characters will become each others' safe harbor. Who would deny teens the opportunity to empathize with and relate to their peers? Some people would and do and that's what is dangerous.
Sadly, I was not in a YA mood, so I didn't get very far into this story, but what I did read seemed genuinely written and very important to cover for teens: domestic abuse, puberty, bullying, racism, friendship and connection, etc. I don't recall one f-bomb in the pages I covered, but I do recall a lot of heartbreak and the expectation that these characters will become each others' safe harbor. Who would deny teens the opportunity to empathize with and relate to their peers? Some people would and do and that's what is dangerous.