A letter was sent to Superintendent Kevin Hendrick and Pinellas School Board members pushing to stop the review board from assessing 87 books.
These books are being evaluated for "age and grade appropriateness." The letter to the school board says some of the titles included are "We Still Belong," about a girl celebrating Indigenous Peoples' Day; "All American Boys," a book about a violent racial incident; and "Daughter of the Deep," which features a non-binary character.
The letter was sent on June 30 to the school board by the groups We Need Diverse Books, PEN America and Florida Freedom to Read Project, plus many of the authors of the books on that list. The letter says, in part, "targeting these titles sets a terrible precedent and message that diverse books need to be further scrutinized and censored, just because they are by and about marginalized creators."
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