If anyone in our class was on the anti-Adventurers side, they weren’t saying it. Instead, all the kids were abuzz with ways to help Mr. Howe and the book at the board meeting we weren’t supposed to go to without our parents. Most kids said their parents were okay with them reading the book—it was just that the ones who weren’t, like my mom, were pretty loud about it. And it only took one parent to make a book challenge, not a majority.

