[aisle] Court of Throne and Roses series

[Sara Bell]

Yes, YA only. The author actually came out and stated that she did not
agree with the publishers choice to market it as YA. She considers them
adult books. Be glad that it was that title flagged.
Good on your assistant for following protocol. Hope it goes smoothly for
you.




On Wed, Mar 16, 2022, 5:12 PM Flaherty, Megan via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Hi fellow librarians!
> Something happened today that I would like to get your opinion on. I work
> at a middle school and an 8th grade student was reading A Court of Frost
> and Starlight, the 4th book in the Court of Thorns and Roses series by
> Sarah J. Maas on her Chromebook on a reading site not connected to our
> school. A passage got flagged by our content monitoring program and she was
> called to talk to the social worker. The passage was a little bit explicit
> and we do not have the 4th book in our library. However, we do have the
> first three books in the series in our library. After hearing this, our
> principal (new this year) came to our library and told our assistant (I was
> out sick) to remove the first three books from the shelf. She did a great
> job and said that we can’t just remove books from the shelf, that there is
> a process to go through. They decided to put the books aside until I come
> back tomorrow. I am upset that he so easily moved to take the books of the
> shelf, but now I want to make sure that they are “appropriate” for middle
> school. This is an area that I struggle with because families vary so much
> in the type of content they allow their children to be exposed to. I tend
> to fall on the more liberal side with giving the choice to families and
> assuming that students have many other venues to access this type of
> content from. I have also not read the books which I am going to do now.
>
>
> Any thoughts on the specific book series and how you go about choosing
> middle school books that contain some sexual content or references?
>
> Thank you for taking the time to read this!!
> Megan Flaherty
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