For February's Banned Books Book Club we are reading Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews. This book was banned and challenged because it was considered sexually explicit and degrading to women (Learn more at Banned Books Week and American Library Association).
Meet at Explore Booksellers, just two blocks from the library.
Greg Gaines is the last master of high school espionage, able to disappear at will into any social environment. He has only one friend, Earl, and together they spend their time making movies, their own incomprehensible versions of Coppola and Herzog cult classics. Until Greg's mother forces him to rekindle his childhood friendship with Rachel. Rachel has been diagnosed with leukemia -- cue extreme adolescent awkwardness -- but a parental mandate has been issued and must be obeyed.