You're Not the Boss of Me!

"What would you do if a friend's parent told you not to read a specific book?"

This was the question posed by Ellen Hopkins to a table of teenagers at the 2009 Anderson's YA Conference.

And yeah. I know that was back in September. But the thing is, the issue of "appropriate" content keeps coming up as it relates to Ellen's work. Some school districts and libraries are canceling her scheduled visits because certain groups of parent's don't want their kids to be privy to the subject matter of...