Right to Read Handbook

The ABA Right to Read Handbook: Fighting Book Bans and Why It Matters

The ABA Right to Read Handbook: Fighting Book Bans and Why It Matters is a comprehensive guide to resisting the epidemic of book censorship through local organizing and engaged citizenship. The Handbook is designed for the potential advocate who may only have a few hours to spare each month. It identifies the causes, actors, motivations, and strategies of groups attempting to ban books across the country. It offers step-by-step guides for voting in a school board election, understanding a school board's policies, contacting elected officials, and more. It features interviews with free expression advocates and state-by-state profiles of local advocacy organizations. Finally, the content is organized into a playbook that will allow concerned readers to begin defending the right to read as soon as book bans arrive in their community.

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• Available on IngramSpark and through Ingram’s distribution network

• Suggested retail: $18

• No returns

• All profits support ABFE’s efforts against book bans

• Publication date: September 16th, 2024

Book Events featuring The ABA Right to Read Handbook

• Sept. 15, 3:00 pm: Politics & Prose, Washington, DC ft. Hannah Oliver Depp (Loyalty Books) and Ramunda Lark Young (Mahogany Books)
• Sept. 22, 3:00 pm: Books & Books (Coral Gables), Miami, FL
• Sept. 22, 11:30 am: [margins] Book Festival ft. Britt Camacho 
• Sept. 23, 3:00 pm ET: The Nonbinarian Book Bike (virtual) ft. Kay Kerimian
• Sept. 26, 6:00 pm: Books Are Magic @ Brooklyn Public Library (Brooklyn Heights Branch), NY ft. Maureen Johnson, Frederick Joseph, Niña Mata, and Eliot Schrefer. Also livestreamed
• Sept. 28, 3:00 pm: Powell's City of Books (Burnside), Portland, OR ft. Alan Gratz
• Oct. 10, 5:30pm: Lion's Tooth, Milwaukee, WI

(All times local time or specified)

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