Thanks to that project, she has been named a finalist for the Founders Scholarship offered by her school, which she badly needs to pay for college. “I’d built my entire - albeit relatively short - existence around books.” A library volunteer, she has spent the summer establishing a nonprofit to create Tiny Little Libraries throughout the city. “It wasn’t a secret I was a very bookish person,” Clara admits. Through her story, Chattanooga author Dave Connis presents young adult readers with a complex and nuanced portrait of the consequences of censorship. But when the administration suddenly demands that the librarian remove more than 50 examples of “prohibited media,” Clara is shocked. When Clara Evans, the protagonist of Suggested Reading, shows up for the first day of her senior year at an exclusive private high school in Chattanooga, the last thing she expects to do is start a revolution.
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