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In 2004, 2005, 2010, and 2011, the ala included her novel what my mother doesnt know on their list of the top ten most challenged books, and it was named 31st on the alas list. Right before winter break, fourteenyearold molly rosenberg reluctantly volunteers to participate in santa monicas annual homeless count, just to get her schools community service. The ala has named her one of the most frequently challenged authors of the 21st century. Its late december, and 14yearold molly is walking around santa monica in the middle of the night, filling schoolassigned communityservice hours. Molly is motivated to save red largely because of her guilt about her older brother, who returned home from war with ptsd and then. In general theyre stories women are probably going to outgrow once theyve stopped being teenage girls.
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