"There's no better place for a young person to engage and wrestle with ideas that may or may not be their own than a book," he told CNN for an in-depth June 2022 feature on book banning in America. "These stories are meant to be playgrounds for ideas, playgrounds for debate and discourse. Books don't brainwash. They represent ideas."
For Reynolds and the other authors, librarians, readers, parents and educators commemorating Banned Books Week 2022, adults have a right to disagree with those ideas. But rather than fear the uncomfortable "conversations young people bring home," adults can actively encourage them…
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