' Ban This Book is absolutely brilliant and belongs on the shelves of every library in the multiverse. This one's for you.' Kathi Appelt, Newbery Honor winning author of The Underneath steampunk League of Seven series by acclaimed author Alan Gratz. 'Readers, librarians, and all those books that have drawn a challenge have a brand new hero in Amy Ann Ollinger.
Soon, Amy Anne and her friends find themselves on the front line of an unexpected battle over book banning, censorship, and who has the right to decide what they can and can't read.īan This Book is a love letter to the written word and its power to give kids a voice, for readers aged 8+.
Because once you ban one book, you can challenge them all under the most ridiculous of pretexts: The Lorax portrays the timber industry in a negative light! The mouse in the room in Goodnight Moon is a health code violation! And let's not even start on the safety concerns raised by The Magic Treehouse. The battle of the books escalates when she engineers a campaign to challenge every book in the school library. Jones, the librarian, told her the bad news: her favourite book was banned! All because a classmate's mum thought the book wasn't appropriate for kids to read.Īmy Anne decides to fight back by starting a secret banned-books library out of her locker. The League of Seven is the first book in an action-packed steampunk series by the acclaimed author of Samurai Shortstop, Alan Gratz. It all started the day Amy Anne Ollinger tried to check out her favourite book in the whole world, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Great deals on one book or all books in the series. An inspiring middle-grade novel about a student who finds the courage to speak up and fight back when her favourite book is banned from her school library. Find the complete The League of Seven book series by Alan Gratz. At the same time, they learn deep-rooted secrets that could destroy the League forever. In the course of their adventures the three heroes meet potential candidates to join their League. And Hachi and Fergus travel to New Orleans to find Madame Blavatsky, the only person who knows the circumstances surrounding the death of Hachi's father. Rivets pursue a shapeshifting girl who has stolen the Dragon Lantern, an ancient artifact with mysterious powers. Archie and his faithful Tik-Tok servant Mr. His belief is put to the test when they are forced to undertake separate missions. Archie Dent is convinced that he and his friends Hachi and Fergus are the first three members of a new League of Seven: a group of heroes who come together to fight the Mangleborn whenever the monsters arise to destroy humanity. The Dragon Lantern is the second action-packed, steampunk adventure in the League of Seven series by the acclaimed author of Samurai Shortstop, Alan Gratz.
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