David’s Reviews > How to Defend Books and Why: Book Bans and How We Fight Them > Status Update

Even without a successful challenge, books can be taken from young readers via challenge-based purgatory, or even self-sensorship by teachers and librarians.

Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) has a great program: Teens and young adults ages 13-21 outside of New York State can apply for a free Books Unbanned eCard. www dot bklynlibrary dot org slash card slash teens dot php

Book banners will falsely label a Y a novel, “pornography” and trip over themselves, trying to ban it, all while the children they are claiming to protect can easily access a galaxy of actual pornography on their phones. In some ways, the desperation to ban books emphasizes book’s power.