[aisle] Court of Throne and Roses series

[Brucki, Patricia]

Megan and all, 

My best coaching for families is to read the book together.

This creates a level of intellectual and emotional and MORAL investment for all involved.

I agree with you on many levels.

We are information specialists. We provide access.  

Parents have the responsibility to build context at home at the kitchen table.

Your principal needs an education as well.  I'm certain we can research best practices for him.

Patti Brucki
Thornwood High School

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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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