[aisle] Court of Throne and Roses series

[Laura Winter]

Hi Megan,

I'm at a middle school and I have the first book in the series, but I
weeded the rest of the series due to the mature content. I had two teachers
tell me that the series was not middle school appropriate and the sex
scenes were explicit. I kept the first book even though the reviews in
Titlewave state grades 9+. Apparently, the first book is more PG than XXX;)
If students want to continue the series I will put a hold on the HS copies
if they really want it, or I tell them to go to the public library.

Good luck!




Laura Winter
Teacher Librarian
Barrington Middle School - Prairie Campus
lwinter at barrington220.org





On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 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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