Ask a Bookseller: ‘Attack of the Black Rectangles’ by Amy Sarig King
On The Thread’s Ask a Bookseller series, we talk to independent booksellers all over the country to find out what books they’re most excited about right now. Click here. We continue our focus on books for kids and teens this September with a middle-grade novel that introduces censorship to middle schoolers. Hana Duckworth of Secret Garden Bookstore in Seattle, Wash., recommends the middle-grade novel “Attack of the Black Rectangles” by Amy Sarig King.Mac, a sixth-grader, gets assigned to read “The Devil’s Arithmetic” by Jane Yolen. It’s a 1988 novel written about the Holocaust, but he and his…
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