Read Banned Books: Drama

Book cover showing three smiling middle school students walking from left to right across a stage in front of a purple curtain.  A pink heart is drawn over the girl in the middle, with purple hair, as she looks at the boy walking in front of her. The title 'DRAMA' appears above the scene,
Cover of Scholastic paperback first edition. (Source: Publisher website)
Title:Drama
Author:Raina Telgemeier
First published:2012

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A graphic novel about a seventh-grade theater kid and her friends, as they deal with middle school crushes, tryouts and rehearsals, getting along with friends and collaborators, and other drama onstage and offstage at their school. The novel was named as one of the top 10 graphic novels of 2012 by the School Library Journal. The book, whose subplots include some of the main character's friends coming out as gay, was also named a Stonewall Honor Book in 2013.

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