Memoirs of a Bookbat
- ISBN-10
- 0152012591
- ISBN-13
- 9780152012595
- Category
- Books and reading
- Pages
- 215
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Kathryn Lasky
Description
Fourteen-year-old Harper, an avid reader of fantasy who must hide her books from her fundamentalist parents, comes to realize that their public promotion of censorship threatens her freedom to make her own choices.
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