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Clara Evans is horrified when she discovers her principal's prohibited-media hit list. The books on it have been pulled from the library and banned from school grounds, and any student caught with the contraband will be punished. Many of those stories changed Clara's life, and she is not willing to watch her principal abuse his power.

So she strikes back: an underground library run out of her locker, doing a shady trade in titles like Speak and The Chocolate War. It works, until one of the books she loves most is connected to a tragedy she never saw coming, and Clara has to face her own role in it.

Dave Connis's standalone YA novel is about censorship, but more precisely about what books actually do to the people who read them — how two readers can take opposite lessons from the same story, and what a self-appointed champion of literature owes the people she hands a book to.