Ellen Hopkins: Humble doesn’t want youThe Teen Lit Fest in Humble is a huge deal for renowned writers of young adult fiction and the kids they’re writing for. Which is why it’s a huge deal that half of the authors have dropped out of the January 2011 festival.
It all started when an Humble ISD librarian complained to some influential parents about New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins, who was scheduled to appear at the festival. (Hopkins writes about cheery subjects like drug addiction, suicide, and religious intolerance.)
Those parents then allegedly bent the ear of Superintendent Guy Sconzo, who ordered another librarian to uninvite Hopkins — even though she had already appeared at two
Humble-area high schools, without causing any of the teenagers to slit their wrists, become pregnant, or turn to prostitution to subsidize chronic substance-abuse problems.
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