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Young Adult Fiction. Young Adult Literature. LGBTQIA+ (Fiction.) HTML:From the author of Annie on My Mind comes an unflinching novel about prejudice, censorship, and homophobia in a New England town. As the editor in chief of the Wilson High Telegraph, senior Jamie Crawford is supposed to weigh in on the cutting-edge issues that will interest students in her school. But when she writes an opinion piece in support of the new health curriculum�??which includes safe-sex education and making condoms available to students�??she has no idea how much of a controversy she's stepped into. A conservative school board member has started a war against the new curriculum, and now�??thanks to Jamie's editorial�??against the newspaper as well. As Jamie deals with the fallout and comes to terms with her own sexuality, the school and town become a battleground for clashing opinions. Now, Jamie and the students at Wilson need to find another way to express their beliefs before prejudice, homophobia, and violence define their small… (more)
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It was mainly about Jamie and Terry. Although their friends and co-workers at the high school student newspaper like Tessa, Nomi (love the name, the character... eh....), and others were very much in the book as well. But Jamie and Terry were the focus of the book for one main reason, they were both (or maybe both) one of the types of people/things that the parents who wind up burning books in the novel were against. They were gay.
That's not the only topic that Garden brings up that the parents don't like though, it's also sex ed in general, and it's the fight that's still happening to this day, sex ed vs. abstinence ed.
What makes this book interesting instead of a bore is that throughout the book there is also the question of journalistic ethics, and lots of other juicy journalistic conundrums that Jamie (as Editor-in-Chief) has to go through with the help of her staff. That was my favorite part.
A lot of the book was sorta of depressing, not because of the book itself, but because I would think, 'oh, this is still happening'. And that would just bum me out.
I was given this ARC by Netgalley on behalf of Open Road Integrated Media.
For the subject matter, I feel I should give it a 4, but for the reading experience it gave me, I just couldn't. So 3 it is.
Jamie, the editor of the school paper, and her best friend both feel they might probably be possibly maybe
The school has recently adopted a free condom Friday policy which has upset some of the parents, and particularly those who believe sex is sinful. Things escalate as books are removed from the library and some want to adopt an abstinence only policy for sex education.
It was an enjoyable although simplistic story that I don't feel quite grasped all the complexities of the subject matter but keeping in mind it is intended for a YA audience I am rounding up my 3 and a half stars to 4.
I received a complimentary copy for review.