The year they burned the books
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The year they burned the books

1999
CensorshipFictionHigh schoolsHomosexualityJournalismPrejudicesSchoolsChildren's fictionSchools, fictionHomosexuality, fictionJournalism, fictionCensorship, fiction

While trying to come to terms with her own lesbian feelings, Jamie, a high-school senior and editor of the school newspaper, finds herself in the middle of a battle with a group of townspeople over the new health education curriculum.

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