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People’s Book, a four month old bookstore in Takoma Park, is asking its customers to help combat Florida’s sweeping book bans. During, an initiative that runs through Saturday, October 7, the store will mail new copies of prohibited titles to the Sunshine State. Customers can purchase books marked “banned,” and drop them in a collections box, which will be sent to mobile bus-turned-bookstore Shelf Indulgence in Sarasota and distributed for free.
The joint effort is a response to Florida’s removal of 300 books from public school library shelves during the last school year, in accordance with the Parental Rights in Education Act . On the forbidden list: Toni Morrison’sThe Act prohibits classroom discussion or instruction about sexual orientation or gender identity, along with books with themes of race and sexuality“The idea that teachers have to pull books from their shelves is just horrific,” said People’s Book owner Megan Bormet, a former elementary school teacher and reading coach.
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