{"id":3263,"date":"2014-04-01T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=3263"},"modified":"2014-03-26T11:10:22","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T16:10:22","slug":"a-is-americus-by-mk-reed-jonathan-hill-book-review-no-ban-for-his-favorite-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=3263","title":{"rendered":"A is Americus, by MK Reed & Jonathan Hill (book review) – no ban for his favorite book!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a>“Fantasy books are the devil’s work!”
\n“Freedom to read<\/a> is every American’s right!”<\/p>\n

Neil’s freshman year won’t be the same without his best friend Danny whose ultra-religious mom banishes him to military school for reading an Apathea Ravenchilde book and stating his personal beliefs.<\/p>\n

This graphic novel has belligerent book-banners, the same bullies from junior high,\u00a0a courageous youth librarian, Neil’s intro to punk rock<\/a>, and excerpts from fantasy books that readers will wish were real.<\/p>\n

Welcome, AtoZers<\/a> – got a banned book story to share?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>:\u00a0 Americus \/ written by MK Reed; art by Jonathan Hill. First Second Books, 2011. [author site<\/a>] \u00a0 [artist site<\/a>] \u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>] \u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: Neil misses his best friend and their mutual love for Ravenchilde books when Danny’s Bible-thumping mom sends him to military school for reading a fantasy book.<\/p>\n

When she tries to have the series banned from their Oklahoma town’s library, the high school freshman decides to stand up against censorship and maybe even against being bullied himself in this graphic novel celebrating our freedom to read. (One of 6,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Fantasy books are the devil’s work!” “Freedom to read is every American’s right!” Neil’s freshman year won’t be the same without his best friend Danny whose ultra-religious mom banishes him to military school for reading an Apathea Ravenchilde book and stating his personal beliefs. This graphic novel has belligerent book-banners, the same bullies from junior […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,80],"tags":[10,22,7,4,55,11,20,5,16,18,44,43,187,15,9,21,35,190,3,53,8],"class_list":["post-3263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-graphic-novel","tag-a2z","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-belonging","tag-books","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-growing-up","tag-lgbtq","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-tbr2013","tag-teens","tag-us-artist","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3263"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3390,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263\/revisions\/3390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}