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Books Burn at the Temperature of 451 Farenheit: banning books is on fire, again!

"A local school board in New York ordered books by celebrated authors including Kurt Vonnegut removed from the school library, saying the books were 'anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and just plain filthy.” As you read this quote you may think it's from today's headlines. Surprisingly, this statement refers to Island Trees School District, Long Island N.Y., and a 1982 Supreme Court case. The books in question, A Hero Ain't Nothin but a Sandwich , Go Ask Alice , Black Boy by Richard Wright, and others were removed from shelves in the junior and senior high school in 1976 culminating in the Supreme Court case Board of Education, Island Trees School District v. Pico . Forty years later here we are again, as school boards across the country are banning books like New Kid by Jerry Craft, which won the Newbery Award in 2020. The community also disinvited the author from a school visit. The reason; people in the community believe this semi-autobiographical

Our Best Books of 2021 List is Here!

It's the most wonderful time of the year! The Prescott Librarians have pulled from a year of reading to share with you our favorite books from the past year. So, without further ado, here's this year's Best Books of 2021 list. We hope you will find a few new titles to enjoy! Happy Reading! The library staff of the Prescott Library at the Wheeler School

Annual Report Part I: Starting at the Finish

"Brava to the 2019-20 Miller Fellows for all their work on our behalf this year. From blogs, Instagram, Animotos, traditions, new thoughts, hard topics, and new voices they ILLUMINATE the manuscript of our Wheeler community!" Laurie Flynn, Director of Strategic Communications We have reached the end of another school year. This one has been extraordinary and in many ways underscores the reason for the librarians to write an annual account of our work with teachers and students. Can our influence be summarized by the last few months of distance learning? This environment does showcase our efforts to provide a true blended learning and online experience for our students and the journey to distance learning has highlighted our work in a way that is unprecedented. School Library Journal published a survey in April 2020 of school librarian experiences during this time of Distance Learning. The survey of 975 librarians reported: "About one-third of respondents said they’d

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