John Green’s First Novel May Be Banned At His Old School

Looking for Alaska was published successful 2005, but it’s being banned and challenged present much than ever, the writer shared connected TikTok. Alicia Farrant, a campaigner moving for schoolhouse committee successful Orange County, Florida — which includes the schoolhouse John Green attended arsenic a pupil — has campaigned partially based connected banning Looking for Alaska from each schoolhouse libraries successful the district.

The writer describes however unusual it is to person his hometown effort to prohibition his book, particularly erstwhile helium knows and adjacent went to schoolhouse with immoderate of the radical involved. He besides calls the sanction of the radical Farrant is representing, Moms for Liberty, “surreal” considering that they are trying to restrict the liberty of different families and students from being capable to marque their ain choices astir which books to read.

As for the crushed the publication is being targeted: “I conscionable don’t deliberation Looking for Alaska is pornography,” Green said. “And I deliberation speechmaking it that mode is simply a small weird.”

The TikTok ends with the writer asking, “Please don’t prohibition my books successful my hometown. It’s truly upsetting for my mom. She has to woody with each these radical talking to her connected Facebook now.”

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