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Garden, Nancy

The Year They Burned the Books

247 pp. | Farrar | September, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-374-38667-6 $$17.00
(4) YA A religious conservative's election to the school board precipitates a controversy in a small-town high school over condom distribution, sex ed, and journalistic freedom in this impassioned if not always convincing novel. Seen through the perspective of the school paper's editor (a closeted "Maybe" lesbian), the story favors the liberal side while including some sympathetic, fairly nuanced conservative characters.
Reviewer: Christine M. Heppermann

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