New York City’s libraries are offering young readers across the nation free online access to books that are deemed inappropriate by parents and have been pulled from school bookshelves.
For a limited time, four books are made available nationwide by New York Public Library (NYPL) on SimplyE, a mobile application for borrowing and reading e-books from libraries. The titles include “Speak” by Laurie Halse Anderson, “King and the Dragonflies” by Kacen Callender, “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You” by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi, and “Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger.
