![]() ![]() ![]() Though this raises the question of why The Breakaways was both challenged and removed. Pretty much any depiction of trans identity is enough to get challenged and this was no different. The nature of the characters, though, explains the controversy because it includes a range of diverse characters including queer kids and a sweet trans boy coming out. At one level this surprised me because the book is a sweet middle grade graphic novel about a bunch of kids who are bad at soccer playing it anyway and making friends. ![]() Johnson from the Spring Branch, Texas, school district. This is how I came across a challenge to and removal of The Bre akaways by Cathy G. My interest is particularly drawn when the books are ones that I haven’t seen challenged and attacked before. The current war on reading being waged by Christian Right extremists is giving me almost too much data to follow and track. ![]()
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