Julia Garnett

3 weeks ago | postandcourier.com | Jonathan Haupt |Julia Garnett

THE FABLED EARTH. By Kimberly Brock. Harper Muse. 400 pages. $28.99. “Hard to live in a dream if you keep trying to wake everybody up,” warns “The Fabled Earth,” a finalist for the Townsend Prize for Fiction and the third novel from past Georgia Author of Year honoree Kimberly Brock.

3 weeks ago | postandcourier.com | Julia Garnett |Jonathan Haupt

BANNED TOGETHER: Our Fight for Readers’ Rights. Edited by Ashley Hope Pérez, illustrated by Debbie Fong. Holiday House. 304 pages. $19.99. “Knowledge is power,” says one of America’s most frequently banned authors, Ellen Hopkins. “And that is what (book banners) fear. Regardless of your upbringing, of where you live, or how you're otherwise pigeonholed, you'll find the knowledge you need in books.

Dec 4, 2024 | msmagazine.com | Julia Garnett

With Donald Trump set to take over the White House next year, the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 agenda for the next conservative president looms large. But what if Project 2025 has already arrived? Republican state legislative supermajorities never needed Trump in power to begin enacting parts of the Heritage Foundation’s policy agenda. “Project 2025 is Tennessee 2024,” said Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones.

Sep 25, 2024 | slj.com | Kara Yorio |Julia Garnett |SLJ Reviewers

A group of Montgomery County, MD, parents of various religions has asked the Supreme Court to review the school system’s refusal to let them opt their children out of classes that use LGBTQIA+ books in lower elementary school grades saying it infringes on their religious liberty rights. The books were introduced in the 2022-23 school year and are not part of a mandatory reading list for the classrooms but can be used by teachers in classroom instruction.

Sep 13, 2024 | slj.com | Kara Yorio |SLJ Reviewers |Julia Garnett

Florida School District Must Restore Books with LGBTQIA+ Content Under Lawsuit Settlement | AP Under the agreement, the School Board of Nassau County must restore access to three dozen titles, including And Tango Makes Three. The book's authors, Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson, were plaintiffs in the lawsuit against the district.