Heading off Book Challenges

There have been some excellent discussions online lately about student choice in school reading programs and how schools and parents should work together to provide those choices.  I keep a huge variety of books -- both MG and YA titles -- in my 7th grade classroom library.  I give book talks, and every day, I make the teachers' version of hand sales to my student customers, recommending new titles based on the last thing a student read and loved.  Our school library, which has seen a huge incre