Oh, how I missed conference… been too long. Loved seeing all my #schoollibrary peeps at #NJASL #NJLA. I’ve been doing this almost 20 years but I still learn something new, make new connections. Always leaves me exhausted yet energized! @njasl.bsky.social #schoollibrariesrock
The Bluest Eye is the 6th most challenged book in 2023. Its author is Nobel prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison.
It's been challenged on the grounds that it is sexually explicit and includes EDI content. However, the novel has been used in AP English Lit classes for years and has received positive commentary.
This picture provides a summary of the book. "In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others—prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment." - Amazon
People are making copycat book challenges across the country using passages out-of-context that they collect and share online. This novel by a Nobel prize-winning author is the 6th most challenged book in 2023. /1 #FreePeopleReadFreely #SchoolLibrariesRock #LibrariesRock #DefendtheFirst
School librarians are uniquely qualified to select books.
Certified librarians are certified teachers that have completed extra advanced coursework to have a school library media endorsement added to their teaching licenses. Many earn full Masters's Degrees in Library Science.
School librarians take graduate-level course in library collection development.
School librarians have also taken classes on child development, educational psychology, readers' advisory, and school library management. They are the best people in the school to select books for the library. They also recognize that not every book is for every child and will work with parents to help them make great choices for THEIR children.
So much misinformation has been spread about school librarians and school libraries. Here are some facts.
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