When people attack books, they think the books will not be able to defend themselves. Luckily, there are many, many people who step in to defend not just the books but the people in the community whom the books are about. Authors, myself included, are emboldened to write freely because we know there are such fierce defenders of the right to read. Thank you to the National Coalition Against Censorship (ncac.org), the Freedom to Read Foundation (ftrf.org), and the American Library Association and its Office for Intellectual Freedom (ala.org), which are among the many fantastic organizations on
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