BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sebbo.net//ical-generator//EN NAME:DC Public Library X-WR-CALNAME:DC Public Library BEGIN:VEVENT UID:bbfec773-7882-481a-8ecc-8a9283a84463 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260813T192717Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220921T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220921T193000 SUMMARY:Author Talk: David Levithan & Amy Sarig King LOCATION:Cleveland Park Neighborhood Library\nCleveland Park Neighborhood Library X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Cleveland Park Neighborhoo d Library;X-APPLE-RADIUS=10;X-TITLE=Cleveland Park Neighborhood Library:ge o:38.9338614,-77.0579754 GEO:38.9338614;-77.0579754 DESCRIPTION:Join Politics and Prose and DC Public Libraries for a Banned B ooks Week event featuring David Levithan and Amy Sarig King. They will dis cuss their new books that take on the issue of censorship..\nhttps://dclib rary.libnet.info/event/7134896 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

In David Levithan&rsquo\;s novel\, Answers in the Pages\, Donovan leaves the new book he's reading in class on the kitchen counter. When his mothe r reads it\, she fears that the two main characters are gay and begins wor k to get it removed from the school curriculum. Soon the entire community is talking about the book\, and if it&rsquo\;s an appropriate choice for k ids. \;Answers in the Pages \;presents \;a compelling story about censorship\, finding your voice\, and who gets to decide what and \;how children \;learn. \;

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Curiosity and a bit of detective work begin when Mac and his classmates encounter the Attack of the Black Rectangles \;(forthcoming) by Amy Sarig King. They are excited as they first start reading in literature circles. But when th ey open their new books and discover words in all of the books have been s ystematically blacked out with permanent marker\, they want to find out wh y. Once they read the unmarked book\, they work to thwart the Attack of th e Black Rectangles. Together\, Mac and his friends collaborate to gain acc ess to books -- without black rectangles -- as they learn and grow. \;

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When not writing during spare hours on weekends\, David Levithan is publisher and editorial director at Scholastic\, and the founding edito r of the PUSH imprint\, which is devoted to finding new voices and new aut hors in teen literature. He has written many books\, including Every D ay\, Nick and Norah&rsquo\;s Infinite Playlist\, Dash &a mp\; Lily&rsquo\;s Book of Dares and the adult novel \;The Lo ver&rsquo\;s Dictionary. \;

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Amy Sarig King \;is the a uthor of the middle grade \;novels \;The Year We Fell from Spa ce \;and Me and Marvin Gardens. She also writes young ad ult novels as \;A.S. King \;and is known for Switch and < em>Dig\, a 2020 Michael L. Printz Award winner and LA Times Book Priz e finalist\, \;Still Life with Tornado\, and Ask the Pass engers\, the 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner. \;She is a faculty member of the Writing for Children and Young Adults MFA program a t Vermont College of Fine Arts. Amy currently lives in Pennsylvania. \ ;

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The discussion will be followed by a book sale and author si gning.

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