Mac is entering 6th grade and his teacher Ms. Laura Samuel Sett is the self-appointed town watch-dog. He and his friends are surprised, by how she runs her class until they are given copies of a book they chose to read for book club and find some words and sentences blacked out. Well, of course that gets their curiosity up, so they head to the local bookstore to find an uncensored copy. They are very confused why those words are not okay, so they begin fighting the injustice of being "protected". Who gets to decide what is okay for everyone? On the other side Mac is also dealing with his dad, who says he is an anthropologist alien studying humans. Mac struggles with keeping his dad's secret or letting his mom know what is going on.
I think this book is very timely with all of the book challenging going on in the world. I would put this right up there with Ban This Book by Alan Gratz.
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