![]() ![]() ![]() It was previously listed by the ALA as the most challenged book of 2016, when it was pulled from the shelves of a library in Henning, Minnesota, and three libraries in Florida “because it includes LGBT characters, drug use and profanity, and it was considered sexually explicit with mature themes. ![]() But this year is different, and they soon find. Mariko and Jillian Tamaki won multiple awards for This One Summer when it was published in 2014, including the Caldecott Medal, the Printz, and the Governor General’s Literary Award for Children’s Illustration. Rose and Windy are summer friends whose families have visited Awago Beach for as long as they can remember. The book was banned and challenged for “profanity, sexual references, and certain illustrations.” ![]() This One Summer, which is published in Canada by Groundwood Books, was listed as the seventh most-challenged book, as determined by media stories tracked by the Office for Intellectual Freedom and incidences of books being challenged reported voluntarily to the OIF. The coming-of-age story co-created by the cousins is about summer-vacation friends who find their beachfront adventures evolving as they befriend some older teens and grapple with family dysfunction. The 2014 graphic novel This One Summer by the Canadian team of Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki has been listed as one of the Most Challenged Books by the American Library Association for the second time. ![]()
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