Jerry Craft’s book, “New Kid,” is the only work to have won the Newbery Medal, the Coretta Scott King Author Award, and the Kirkus Prize — but it has been banned in some school districts. In this essay, Craft responds to the bans.
. What these movies all have in common is that, for the most part, humans are the bad guys. We all cheered for the large blue aliens, a very big green troll, and a little extraterrestrial--characters who would scare us to death in real life. But there are no protests from parents who claim that these movies make their kids feel guilty to be human.
In fact, just today I received an email from a 13-year-old girl who identifies as being white with autism and other disabilities . She took the time to write to me because she wanted to tell me that she related to the characters inbecause,"I know what it's like to be different at school, and the book helped me." The parents and politicians who fight to ban books like mine will never entertain the idea that our books help kids who feel like outsiders see that they are not alone.
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