Small town librarian Amanda Jones values books for affirming young people’s sense of self. In 2022, she attended a local public hearing on “book content” and knew the stakes were high. Schools and libraries nationwide face demands to remove books with LGBTQ+ references, discussions of racism, and more. Amanda vowed to fight against her community banning stories representing minority groups. She spoke out at the meeting, but faced death threats, attacks, and derogatory names. Extremists using dark money and hard right politicians funded book banning campaigns to make America more white, straight, and Christian. Amanda sued her harassers for defamation and urged others to join her resistance. This book maps the book banning crisis nationwide, drawing the battle lines in the war against equity and inclusion. It calls book lovers everywhere to defend their readers. (This remainder book contains a sharpie mark on the top or bottom edge.)