Daily News | The day the book banners lost in Pennsylvania’s culture wars
of cutting all state dollars for its 160 public libraries in a fit of pique over a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union, which is challenging a state law forcing libraries in the Show-Me State to yank some 300 books over allegations they are sexually explicit.
Now a top author like Tennessee-based Gratz — who has steadily climbed toward the top of the young-adult bestseller listson hot-button subjects such as refugees, the Holocaust and terrorism, an approach that he calls “social thrillers” — is finding himself on the front lines of a war that no one expected to see in America.
“The reason I’m writing these books is because kids are asking me to write about these topics,” Gratz told me. “We always want to say we’re trying to protect children by keeping these kind of things from them, but honestly the world is coming at kids faster than before. The kids have been going through active shooter drills since kindergarten” and have also been exposed to debates over tough issues like racism at a young age.
The backlash was hardly unique, either nationally or in Pennsylvania — where several suburban districts have seen bitter clashes over what’s
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