You Think Everything Can Be

If No One Speaks Out For [young Readers], If They Don’t Speak Out For Themselves, All They’ll Get For Required Reading Will Be The Most Bland Books Available. Instead Of Finding The Information They Need At The Library, Instead Of Finding Novels That Illuminate Life, They Will Find Only Those Materials To Which Nobody Could Possibly Object... In This Age Of Censorship I Mourn The Loss Of Books That Will Never Be Written, I Mourn The Voices That Will Be Silenced — Writers’ Voices, Teachers’ Voices, Students’ Voices — And All Because Of Fear.

"margaret" Was Just My Truth. It Was What I Knew To Be True About Sixth Grade.

It Was A Such A Surprise, Such An Absolute Shocking Surprise To Me To Not Know What You're Doing And To Find Out That This Thing That You Don't Even Know How To Do, That You're Sure You Don't Know How To Do, Speaks To So Many People And Touches So Many People In Some Way.

What's The Point Of Thinking About How It's Going To End When It's Just The Beginning?

I Wasn't Interested In The Kinds Of Books That I Thought I Should Be Reading.