The Importance of Balance in YA Novels

LZ Granderson is a children's librarian who works in Florida. Her new YA novel features trans people having sex and she has received death threats for making the book. She says that her ideal world would be to work with kids every day and also make all of the stuff that I want to make. "I am choosing not to make that right now because I think that having too many things explicitly about sexuality in the world might endanger my job"

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