Maureen Johnson Responds to her Book, "The Bermudez Triangle," Being CHALLENGED in Florida!

Maureen Johnson's YA novel, "The Bermudez Triangle" was challenged this summer. Some Mothers in pink jackets decided it wasn't only not appropriate for their kids, they wanted the book moved to the adult section of the library, so no other unsuspecting youths would be exposed to the "inappropriate" content...

Check out Maureen's funny and passionate response to the controversy, here:




Here are the links that Maureen refers to during her video.


The Fox interview (get the ridiculous anchor chiming in that the mothers should really be fighting to BAN the books, not just move them to a different section of the library! Fox is so good at that neutral-being-a-journalist-thing. NOT!)

http://www.foxnews.com/search-results/m/22577720/unfit-to-print.htm#q=%22gossip+girls%22

The Local Florida TV Station's downloadable excerpts from Maureen's "The Bermudez Triangle" are here:

http://www.wftv.com/news/19716133/detail.html

This stuff is ridiculous. Maureen is awesome.

The best revenge to all these book banners? READ her book!


I found out about this at the National Coalition Against Censorship website, here! Check it out. And thanks for Maureen for her permission to share her video here!

Namaste,
Lee

Bermudez Triangle, The

By Maureen Johnson

The Bermudez Triangle is three best girlfriends in High School; Nina, Melanie (a.k.a. Mel), and Avery.

The summer before their senior year, Nina goes off to a college-prep program and meets Steve. When Nina comes back, she's stunned to discover that Mel and Avery found love that summer, too - with each other!

In the words of Maureen's website:

What exactly do you do when your two best friends in the entire world start dating?

"The Bermudez Triangle" is such a fun summer beach read that they even published a versino where the cover is "splash-proof!" (no, really. check it out.)















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