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Nine-year-old Amy Anne Ollinger is used to keeping quiet, even when she has a lot to say. But when her favorite book gets banned from the school library, followed by tons of others, she decides to "finally...do something." Passages occasionally veer toward the didactic, but Amy Anne's relatability and the ambitious scope of her protest project make it easy to root for her.