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AISLE Conference 2022 - Gaming in Libraries

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AISLE A.C.T. Thursday Sessions & Descriptions (2).pdf

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AISLE A.C.T. Friday Sessions & Descriptions.pdf

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AISLE A.C.T. Saturday Sessions & Descriptions (4).pdf

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Several social and networking events will be happening during conference. See the Schedule of Events page for information about Chapter meet-ups and university receptions.

Follow the AISLE Social Media pages for announcements as we get closer to the start of Conference! Join the AISLE Facebook group, and follow AISLE on Twitter (@aisled_org) and on Instagram (@aisled_org). And remember to follow the AISLE A.C.T. Conference hashtag, #AISLEd22.

View the schedule and the signing policy (under Attendee Information).

The full schedule of sessions with descriptions is now available to view. See the Schedule of Events page for the most up-to-date information! There may be updates to these as conference planning continues.

Did you see that there's a special edition of the AISLE Newsletter highlighting all that's planned for this year's conference? Want to share all the excitement with coworkers, school administrators, and other librarians? Look no further! View the Conference Special Edition .

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Several social and networking events will be happening during conference. See the Schedule of Events page for information about Chapter meet-ups and university receptions. Follow the AISLE Social Media pages for announcements as we get closer to the start of Conference! Join the AISLE Facebook group, and follow AISLE on Twitter (@aisled_org) and on Instagram (@aisled_org).

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By Mariela Sidgert & Mary Hart

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Information regarding the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards.

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President of ALA's Games & Gaming Round Table

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This month we have four events happening in GameRT Land! The biggest one and one of our favorites is that all month long this month is International Games Month! Is your library having an International Games Month event? Tell us about it! We also have our monthly Board Meeting and two programs…

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When I decided to start teaching kids to design games, I scoured the internet and had a hard time finding good resources. I cobbled together what I could find, and then over the years have changed, added, modified, and created so much new stuff that I thought it was a shame that no one else could see it or use it.

I thought about publishing them in a book, but that's a stagnant resource with little reach. Plus, given my cobbling together o'resources, despite all my work, I can't say with 100% that everything is entirely original to me.

Most importantly, I feel as though I've benefited from the hard work of so many gamers, game designers, publishers, and other educators to create these resources, and I want these resources to be free to remove any impediment towards using them whatsoever.

With that in mind, I love sharing and collaborating! Shoot me an email if you plan to use anything, and I can help you shape your units, whether a three hour workshop or a semester-long class like I use.

This is me at Rivendell in New Zealand. I wish I had taken off my shoes.

​ If there is one thing that I would teach for the remainder of my career, I would teach game design because it's the most comprehensive, challenging, real-world, and fun unit ever.

You want theory? It's a Robert Sternberg Triarchic Theory dream--creative, practical, and analytical. Check out the video I made about the theory for one of my Masters in Educational Technology classes. You can hear my angelic voice.

You want design thinking? Empathy, iterative design, collaboration, feedback.

You want to address common core? Writing rules covers so much in terms of English Language Arts, especially Informative Text and Procedural Writing.
My only request is this: If you use any of these materials, please share with me what you used and how you used it. If you share back with me any changes that you've made, that would amazing and I'll post them too. The only thing you can't do is take these materials and publish them yourself. So not cool. Technology is a great liberator, and in this era of online collaborating and crowd sourcing, I want to provide to teachers, who may not have access to challenging materials for gifted middle and high school students, all my stuff for free. Any one can use it, really. Home schoolers, hobbyists, video game designers (the process is similar, just different outputs)...just give credit where credit is due. You don't want to make Ragnor up there angry.
One last thing, if any student (or teacher, or random other person finding and using this information for their own purposes) publishes a game, let me know, and put me in the credits. I get to have a little bit of an ego, after all.

I'm glad you found my site! Enjoy! Shoot me an email. I'm hilarious and helpful.

I went to Scotland. This is the Glenfinnan Viaduct stone bridge featured in Harry Potter. I am smiling like a fool in this picture because not only is it the Harry Potter bridge, but the Hogwarts Express itself is crossing the bridge behind me.

I like to call this the greatest day of my life.

Waiting for the train meant that I was trainspotting in Scotland. So many life goals unlocked at once!

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When I decided to start teaching kids to design games, I scoured the internet and had a hard time finding good resources. I cobbled together what I could find, and then over the years have changed, added, modified, and created so much new stuff that I thought it was a shame that no one else could see it or use it.

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Fiction is gossip about people who happen to be make believe.
- Readers should be attracted to stories that are "gossip-worthy." What do people tend do gossip about? Who do people gossip about?

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Why do we like cheesecake?
Cheesecake is a pleasure technology.
Fiction hits our pleasure buttons.
What people find pleasurable: beauty, power, status, resources/wealth, competition, danger, touch.
Competition and power are the main drivers of pleasure.
There are also "idiosyncratic pleasures"
Highlighting the pleasures a book provides—a display called "GAME ON" with books featuring "competition" pleasure

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- need for relationship
- need for group membership
- need to belong
- parasocial relationships
- the most successsful and appealing books will offer a feeling of belonging to a group

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There are many more theories, Barnes uses about 7 others in her writing that have to do with cognition.

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Presented by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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A self-identified collective of individuals who are highly invested in a media property or celebrity.

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What makes people become absolutely obsessed with media property? 

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Who becomes obsessed with media properties?

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Who becomes obsessed with media properties?

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What kinds of stories tend to inspire fandom?

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What kinds of stories tend to inspire fandom?

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Observation
- Fandom is not just for sci-fi, fantasy, and paranomal.
- Of realistic fiction, 6 of 9 are police proceedurals, 2 of 9 are medical proceedurals, the remaining one was episodic - they all tend to have a "case of the week" structure.

Theorizing
- Big questions are about characters and relationships, not the end goal.
- Procedural shows ration out character moments, aka cookies. Turns us into cookie monsters: we want more cookies!
- Procedural shows focus on family/teams.

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- multiple generations
- are temporally expansive
- emotionally expansive (humor, angst, fluff)
- multitude of love stories (romantic, familial, platonic)
- Focus on special people
- Focus on special world (specified setting)

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What is the psychological profile of highly engaged-readers?

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What is the psychological profile of highly engaged-readers?

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Imaginative Engagement Scale:
- co-authoring - this subscale can be used to prompt creative and critical thinking.
- gap-filling
- perspective-taking
- reflection

Traits of those in Fandom
- highly transportable - give them somewhere to go
- high openness to experience - give them something new to experience
- get more emotionally attached to characters and involved in storylines - if you increase imaginative engagement, you increase emotional engagement. Fans get emotionally involved with characters who are "like me" and AWESOME. Fans get emotionally involved in the plights of fictional characters who have avoidant attachment styles.
- resistance to authorial authority - give them stuff to resist and get out of their way. "The NOOOOOO test!"

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Imaginative and emotional investment in stories exists along a spectrum.

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Imaginative and emotional investment in stories exists along a spectrum.

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Spectrum:
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- Fandom-adjacent

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Using TikTok in the Modern Library AISLE 2022

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Lincoln Award: Illinois Teen Readers’ Choice Award

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Lincoln Award: Illinois Teen Readers’ Choice Award

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Lincoln Award: Illinois Teen Readers' Choice Award

The Lincoln Award is given to the book from that year's master list that earns the highest number of student votes.

For a book to reach the master list, adult and young adult fiction and nonfiction titles must be nominated by teachers or librarians and vetted by the nominations committee. While the popularity of a particular title is important, the overall quality of the work is of primary importance. Each year, a panel of high school librarians, teachers, public librarians and students determines the final master list of twenty titles.

Registered schools promote these books, and students who have read four or more titles are eligible to vote. See the calendar for the award timeline and register today!

This program encourages teens to read for pleasure and to become lifelong readers. Named after former President Abraham Lincoln, an avid reader and noted author, the Lincoln Award is sponsored by AISLE and administered by the steering committee.

2023 Award Year

2022 Award Year

2021 Award Year

Previous Award Years

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AISLE - Lincoln Award: Illinois Teen Readers' Choice Award

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Lincoln Award: Illinois Teen Readers' Choice Award The Lincoln Award is given to the book from that year's master list that earns the highest number of student votes. For a book to reach the master list, adult and young adult fiction and nonfiction titles must be nominated by teachers or librarians and vetted by the nominations committee.

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Library controversy; Review: Gender Queer

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Library controversy; Review: Gender Queer

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For some, identity is not as simple of a concept as it seems. I, for one, grew up content with the femininity my parents immersed me in. Shopping with my mom in my pink tights after my weekly ballet class was my favorite activity. However, I remember a girl in my ballet class who wore basketball shorts instead of a leotard and was much louder than the rest of the female dancers. I liked her, but told my mom "she's like a boy." For me, even as a kid, my gender identity was simple. For her, maybe it wasn't.

"Gender Queer" is a coming-of-age autobiography that tells Maia Kobabe's story of navigating her gender identity and sexuality. Kobabe uses e, em, eir pronouns. E is very honest in doing this, which made parts of " Gender Queer" uncomfortable to read and see through graphics, but that's how growing up is. Everything is ugly, and that's a trend seen in other books in our school library, the media, on our phones, and everywhere in real life.

Graphic novels are naturally engaging and easy to read, so I found myself finishing " Gender Queer" in just a few hours. However, some scenes made me cringe and just felt a little too revealing for Kobabe to put in an autobiography-like when she went into detail about her "vagina slime" or sexual fantasies. It wasn't the existence of these fantasies that bothered me, but just how often it was talked about, and not in a vague way. No matter what sexuality is being expressed, there is a reader-author line of comfort that is arguably crossed in this novel.

After reflecting, I also question if I thought that certain things were taken too far into detail, just because I cannot directly relate. Did Kobabe cross a line or am I just so used to seeing my "norm" in the media? As someone who constantly sees cisgender, heterosexual representation, this may not be a question I can answer. What I do is continue to open myself up to all perspectives and support that opportunity in our school.

My thoughts during and after reading " Gender Queer" are a perfect example of why it deserves its small spot in our library, which was overlooked until now. Like most of my opinions, how I feel about this book is not clear-cut. However, it led me to have a personal debate in my head. Even while writing this, I constantly delete and rewrite sentences. As someone who considers themselves to be universally accepting, do have deep-rooted homophobia? Students should have the option to read this book and challenge themselves, their possible homophobia, and see what a privilege it is to have representation in the media.

In every link we click or book we open, we are able to be selective in the ideas we surround ourselves in. Therefore, I would recommend this book to someone who craves the inclusion lacking in everyday media or has the maturity to read a different perspective. " Gender Queer" isn't for everyone, but those who want to read it will already be aware of the honesty, vulnerability, and individuality that this graphic novel encompasses.

Every day at school or in public, I see all walks of life. This holiday season, I am grateful for all the wildly different people that make this world, and even Downers Grove, what it is. What's important is not shielding students from the world's individualism, but allowing us the opportunity to read new perspectives, we want.

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Library controversy; Review: Gender Queer

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For some, identity is not as simple of a concept as it seems. I, for one, grew up content with the femininity my parents immersed me in. Shopping with my mom in my pink tights after my weekly ballet class was my favorite activity. However, I remember a girl in my ballet class who wore...

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Proud Boys join effort to ban ‘Gender Queer’ book from school library — rattling students in suburban Chicago

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Proud Boys join effort to ban ‘Gender Queer’ book from school library — rattling students in suburban Chicago

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When a group of conservative Downers Grove parents organized this year to oppose mask mandates and equity initiatives at schools, it led to some tense school board meetings in the western suburb.

Yet students at Downers North and Downers South high schools said they didn't see a big impact on their lives until the parents sought to remove a graphic novel by a nonbinary author from the school libraries over concerns it included a few sexually explicit illustrations - a fight that caught the attention of the Proud Boys, a far-right gang that has recently seized on the culture wars playing out at school districts around the country.

A Proud Boys contingent ultimately showed up for a board meeting in Downers Grove last Monday where the book was discussed, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned.

Edgar "Remy Del Toro" Delatorre, a leader of the group's northern Illinois chapter who was at the Jan. 6 insurrection in Washington, D.C., said he was among roughly 10 Proud Boys in attendance.

They were joined by Proud Boys associate Brian Kraemer, who has appeared at demonstrations with members of the group and who was charged with brandishing a knife at a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Joliet last summer.

Their presence at the meeting - where students said the men jeered at them, even called them "pedophiles" for supporting keeping the book in the library - was "unnerving" and "intimidating," they told the Sun-Times. It has led to rifts among students in the school, including one who wore Donald Trump garb to class this week while arguing against the book.

"Politics have never caused division in the school setting before," said Tabitha Irvin, a Downers North junior. "But it kind of fell apart after the board meeting."

Telegram posts target board meeting

Earlier this month signs of the tensions began leaking from Community High School District 99 board meetings into high school hallways.

An article in the Downers North student newspaper, the DGN Omega, led to some student chatter about the parents' attacks on board policies - primarily by the conservative group "Wake Up D99" - as did a lawsuit over mask mandates that some parents joined against 145 Illinois school boards and Gov. J.B. Pritzker.

Then, some area Proud Boys caught wind of the complaints against "Gender Queer," a book that has been targeted by conservatives nationwide. "Gender Queer" is an autobiography about nonbinary author Maia Kobabe's journey of gender identity as a teenager and young adult. A few pages that include illustrations of sex acts have drawn the bulk of the ire, while other students, parents and community members see the book as a vital tool for youth discovering their identity and efforts to ban it as censorship.

The District 99 November board meeting was promoted on Telegram, an encrypted messaging app favored by extremists and others on the far-right. A flyer advertising a "SCHOOL BOARD SHOWDOWN" was posted to the Telegram channel for the northern Illinois chapter of the Proud Boys, which has more than 280 subscribers.

"Please join the parents of [District 99] fight to keep pornography out of Downers Grove Schools," the post said.

A Telegram account apparently belonging to Kraemer also urged other Telegram users to join him at the school board meeting.

"I will be speaking against child porn in my kids [sic] school. The left is planning to show up strong," he wrote. Kraemer wouldn't say if he has children, and he lives in New Lenox, about 30 miles from Downers Grove.

At the meeting, members of the group joined parents and others in the audience holding signs saying "No Porn" and jeered at the board and any students or parents who spoke in support of the book, but the group of men largely did not make any public remarks themselves. They also didn't appear to wear Proud Boys regalia or clothing with the group's signature black and yellow colors.

In a series of Twitter messages, Delatorre confirmed to the Sun-Times that he and other Proud Boys attended the meeting.

But he insisted his group isn't homophobic and that he and the other Proud Boys were merely standing against the sexual imagery portrayed in "Gender Queer," which isn't required reading or part of the district curriculum. The group's Telegram channel, however, includes multiple recent posts that appear to be homophobic and transphobic.

He added that some Proud Boys are parents "concerned on what [is] being shown to their sons and daughters," though it's unclear whether he has children.

Delatorre, 34, of Chicago, was previously seen outside the U.S. Capitol as rioters stormed the building Jan. 6. Other Proud Boys have since been ensnared in the sprawling federal investigation into the insurrection and its planning.

Delatorre was later arrested in connection to a March dustup at an anti-Biden rally in Schaumburg. The charges against him were ultimately dropped, Cook County court records show.

Kraemer, 31, was seated in one of the first few rows right behind the microphone stand where speakers addressed the board.

Reached by phone and text message Tuesday, Kraemer threatened to call the cops and declined to answer questions but acknowledged he was at the meeting. He questioned where a Sun-Times reporter found his phone number because he "did not put it anywhere at the meeting last night."

He was arrested last July in Joliet when he allegedly disrupted a Black Lives Matter demonstration and "brandished a hunting knife and held it in a threatening manner," police said.

Will County court records show he was charged with misdemeanor counts of reckless conduct and disorderly conduct in that case for allegedly "aggressively" pulling his vehicle into a crowd of protesters before displaying the knife and yelling obscenities at protesters. A jury trial is scheduled to start Jan. 4, records show.

Activist Candice Quinerly, one of the listed victims in a charging document, told the Sun-Times that Kraemer initially drove past her group and yelled, "You all are going to die."

That wasn't their first interaction. Quinerly had seen Kraemer mulling around other protests, and just a few weeks earlier allegedly had called her a "Black antifa b----," she said.

"It just freaks me out that he's just out here doing this to people," she said.

'That's not OK'

A group of Downers North students attended the meeting to ask the school board to ignore calls for "Gender Queer" to be banned.

One of those students, Josiah Poynter, an 18-year-old senior at Downers North, told the Sun-Times that after he addressed the board, a man in the audience repeatedly told him, "You're a pedophile. You promote pedophilia" and threatened to call the police on him. In the parking lot later, the man allegedly drove up to Poynter shouting "pedophile" at him, Poynter said.

Shown a photo of the audience, Poynter pointed to Kraemer as the man who made the comments.

"The last thing we need is some 30- or 40-year-old man who lives in the middle of nowhere to be calling ... some kid a 'pedophile,'" Poynter said. "That's not OK."

Lauren Pierret, a senior at Downers Grove North, said "it made me very uncomfortable" that there were "men in the back yelling things out for no reason" when she and her friends addressed the board. The school board president threatened to adjourn the meeting several times because of shouted interruptions, jeers and comments to speakers.

"Having an adult man behind me saying things to me was very unnerving," she said.

Hank Thiele, the district's superintendent, didn't respond directly when asked whether he was alarmed that Proud Boys members and associates attended the meeting.

"All District 99 Board of Education meetings are open to members of the public, and there are always equal opportunities for attendees to address the Board," he said in a statement.

Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Divided student body

Pierret said she had been surprised by students' togetherness and supportiveness so far this school year as they grappled with the return to in-person learning during the pandemic. But students have been divided since last Monday, she said.

"Even the students whose parents are part of Wake Up D99, they didn't really make it a big deal or a big issue," Pierret said. "But then when the Proud Boys, this big intimidating group, came in and made this issue so big, it forced students to look at what's going on."

Irvin said several of her classes have discussed the week's events, she said, and she noticed for the first time a student wearing a "Trump 2024" hat as he voiced his dislike of "Gender Queer."

"Students are now getting really caught up in the political controversy in the whole issue, and that's exactly what fuels groups like the Proud Boys," she said. "We can't stoop down to their level and engage with them becauseit only strengthensthem."

Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Parents distance themselves from Proud Boys

Parents who want to remove the book sought to distance themselves from the Proud Boys. The "Wake Up D99" group wrote in a Facebook post that it " will NEVER be associated with The Proud Boys"and that its "flyer was used in combination with a Proud Boys Flyer without our permission."

Terry Newsome, who spoke at the meeting, said he didn't want his concerns as a parent of two high schoolers to be conflated with Proud Boys messaging. Newsome said he and another parent have a meeting scheduled with district administrators this week to discuss the book.

"You got the politics of the left and right with the antifa and Proud Boys who have their own little political agendas, I guess," Newsome said, referring in part to the decentralized antifascist activists who track and protest extremist groups. But he said that "doesn't have anything to do" with his complaints.

National effort

The Proud Boys have recently joined school board protests around the country, appearing at a North Carolina meeting against mask mandates and forcing another in the state to move its meetings online, similar to what happened at a meeting in Oregon.

David Goldenberg, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League's Midwest office, said it's now "a common trend" for members of the Proud Boys and other extremists to attend school board meetings and other public events "to either recruit, to antagonize [or] to engage."

Meanwhile, state and federal lawmakers have taken notice of the Proud Boys' presence. Illinois General Assembly's five-member LGBTQ Caucus urged district officials to protect queer students "from hate and censorship by immediately rejecting calls to censor a queer positive book in the high school library."

Thiele said at the meeting the book will remain in circulation while administrators review parent's complaints.

U.S. Rep. Sean Casten, the Democratic congressman who represents the district, said he has talked to board members since last Monday about student safety.

"I think the Proud Boys are reprehensible. They're part of the biggest threat to our country, domestic terrorism, and they are part and parcel of that," Casten said.

"Let's be really blunt about this. If you are a grown adult and you are walking through a library in an elementary school or high school and having sexual thoughts, you are the problem. It ain't the book."

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Why parents tried to ban this children's book about a Chinese immigrant family

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Right in the midst of Banned Books Week, which concluded on Saturday, a children's novel about a Chinese-immigrant experience entered the center of controversy in a small New York school district.

Front Desk, the award-winning middle-grade debut novel of Kelly Yang, published by Scholastic, was reportedly being read aloud in a fifth-grade classroom of the Plainedge School District last week when an administrator came in to put a halt to it.

"Somebody tweeted and cc'd me about it," Yang, who has been vocal about the attempted ban on social media, tells Yahoo Life. "They think the book is 'antiracist,' and [that term has] been weaponized."

Neither the Plainedge superintendent's office nor the principal of Eastplain Elementary School - the school in the district where the halted read-aloud occurred, according to a parent tweet - has responded to requests for comment from Yahoo Life.

Previously, Front Desk - based on Yang's own experiences of emigrating to this country from China as a young girl and working the front desk of a motel to help her parents out at their job managing the property - had appeared on the lengthy and much-publicized banned books list in Central York High School in York, Pa. ( which was recently reversed following student protests).

The Plainedge District has a K-12 enrollment of 2,823 that is 86 percent white, 8 percent Hispanic and 5 percent Asian; according to one parent letter shared to social media, though, a chief complaint by those offended by the book is there is a chapter that has a white police officer falsely accusing a Black motel guest of theft.

"This author's books are extremely divisive and controversial, and we are shocked and disappointed that this 'CRT' book is part of Plainedge's teachings," wrote the parent behind the letter, referring to the controversial critical race theory - a teaching methodology that acknowledges the role of systemic racism in shaping American history, with tenets including "racism has always existed" - according to screenshots posted to Yang's Instagram.

The letter continued, "Our children ... are not to be audiences to any books that portray cops as racist, foster the notion of white supremacy or white privilege, teach that America is a racist country where all people are not equal etc. ... "

Many NYPD members appear to call Plainedge home, at least according to a 2016 interactive map that showed nearly 200 such officers living within the two Plainedge ZIP codes. In 2015, the community was rocked after NYPD officer Brian Moore, a Plainedge native, was shot and killed while out on patrol; residents raised $40,000 to erect a bronze statue of the slain officer, and a school athletic center was named in his honor.

Glowing reviews of Front Desk, meanwhile, have praised the " feisty and empowered heroine" and for being a "testament to how a great story can grab you by the heart and never quite let go." Last week, following the initial outcry, the book landed on the New York Times bestseller series list. (Just before that, frequently banned author Alex Gino told Yahoo Life, "It is not how I want things to go, but when a book gets banned or challenged, sales go up.")

According to Yang and reports on social media, her book was temporarily banned until the district came to the decision to reinstate it in classrooms while giving parents the choice to "opt-out" their children from reading it. Those who do opt out, according to the unidentified parent who had been tweeting out details of the unfolding situation, will instead read Home of the Brave, a middle-grade book about an African immigrant written by Katherine Applegate, who responded to the decision by tweeting about how she had "bought 20 copies" of Front Desk.

Pushback against books that aim to teach about antiracism has been on the rise around the country, according to Deborah Caldwell-Stone, the director of the Office of Intellectual Freedom at the American Library Association, which promotes the annual Banned Books Week to raise awareness and support the freedom to read.

That pushback, she previously told Yahoo Life, in a recent story about the Central York situation, "reflects what we observed last year when we reviewed data for the most-challenged books of 2020 list, which is a wealth of books dealing with antiracism, particularly of the experience of Black Americans, being suppressed, under this idea that it subtracts from the experience of the majority." In August, the ALA released an official statement denouncing the censorship trend.

Last Yang heard, close to 10 kids in the Plainedge district had opted out of reading Front Desk. "I think that the parents are uncomfortable with a book about a young Chinese immigrant, and they're using a lot of different words to try to ban it ... because it doesn't fit into their very specific view of what this country is like for everyone," Yang says. "This country is made of all sorts of different people, and you go to school to learn how to deal with the world and interact with people from all walks of life, different ethnicities ... so I always think it's great when kids can read a book about someone whose life is a little bit different and learn compassion and understanding."

Yang says that since she arrived in this country at the age of 6, her parents had "pretty hard jobs, often manual labor," and that she has felt "personally attacked" by some of the book-ban groups she has seen discussing her work - and her life - on Facebook. "They go and research my personal achievements ... and say, 'If anyone should be grateful and say great things about this country, it should be her.' When in fact the father in the book says, despite all their suffering, that they're still really glad they came here."

In response to the controversy, Yang made a video about the freedom to read - "a freedom," she says, "my parents ironically came over for."

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