Monday's Not Coming

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Monday’s Not Coming is told in three distinct timelines: “One Year Before the Before” takes place a year before Monday goes missing, “The Before” covers the year after Monday goes missing, and “The After” takes place two years after the police discover that Monday and August were murdered. However, this structure isn’t clear until the end of the book. As a result of the trauma of discovering her best friend was murdered, Claudia represses her memories of the discovery—and so she spends the two years after the discovery tirelessly trying to unravel the mystery of Monday’s disappearance all over again. Memory, the novel shows, is fragile and fleeting when it’s intertwined with trauma, as trauma can cause a person to misremember or repress their memories. But the novel also suggests that it’s only through remembering that a person can understand their trauma and ultimately heal from it. But the woman, who asked that only her first name be used, said she never asked for the books to be pulled from the shelves. Gender Queer," by Maia Kobabe, which is a memoir that a parent recently read excerpts from at a Canyons School Board meeting. This book, a graphic novel in which Kobabe discusses sexual orientation and gender identity, has made headlines recently for causing controversy in other states, including Texas.

One of the greatest tenets of librarianship is that you serve every member of your population," Bates said. "I know for a fact that there are transgender kids at my school. So I'm going to have books about transgender issues in my library." She said most libraries have written policies about how to challenge a book and what the process for review is. It's a compelling premise, to be sure, but the novel's confusing timeline paired with lots of padding drained every bit of tension and urgency out of the story. Where Allegedly had me on the edge of my seat from start to finish, Monday's Not Coming failed to make my heart pound and my jaw clench like the author’s first book. Gender Queer is a graphic memoir published in 2019 by nonbinary illustrator Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns. The book charts eir discovery of eir gender identity through adolescence. Kobabe’s memoir has been challenged in states like Iowa, New Jersey, and Virginia. In a Washington Post op-ed, Kobabe dismissed parents' claims that the book “promoted pedophilia” (because of its depiction of an erotic Greek vase) as “a common accusation against work with themes of queer sexuality.” 5. Melissa (Previously known as George) by Alex Gino Atlanta Monsteris an in-depth look into the infamous Atlanta Child Murders, which occurred between 1979 and 1981 with over 25 victims. The podcasts speaks to the racial bias happening in Atlanta around that time and how it affected the community. Also Criminal and Sword and Scale. (Hint: Episode 67 of Sword and Scale is the Detroit case my book is based on.)none of the teachers in all of Claudia's seven years of schooling ever assigned in-class written assignments, essay or short answer tests, or read-alouds that would have highlighted her inability to read or write; It's important to tell because I don't want any of you to experience any anxiety or emotional pain! Because I felt emotional pain so bad, I cried like literally cried my eyes out , it was so emotional and painful to see these 14 year old kids going through so much !

Bates said some people may see the fact that there isn't a lot of interest in these books as another reason to just eliminate them from the library's available titles. At first, I honestly thought the conversation was a bit over-reaching. But then a friend referenced the way Hae Min Lee was treated in the Serial podcast, how it focused solely on proving Adnan Syed innocence and not on a beautiful life violently taken too soon. I realized, more often more than not, girls become nothing more props in a story. They’re not the elephant in the room, they’re merely pieces of living room furniture you can easily overlook, subsequently taking away their humanity and detaching us emotionally. Also, we never think about the victim’s family or friends or the way their catastrophic loss plagues them, almost daily. "I realized, more often more than not, girls become nothing more props in a story. They’re not the elephant in the room, they’re merely pieces of living room furniture you can easily overlook..." This is the story of how my best friend disappeared. How nobody noticed she was gone except me. And how nobody cared until they found her . . . one year later.” One school librarian who asked to remain anonymous told Teen Vogue that there are already robust vetting tools for librarians to select books for school libraries. While they respect parents’ rights to advocate for their child, they believe established policies let “cooler heads prevail.” We do not have a challenge to any book," Haney said. "If we would have had a challenge from a patron/employee with standing according to the policy, then the policy outlines how the district would proceed."

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I really really liked her kinda solid way of expressing the feelings of characters. I liked how she used the specific verbals of region like use of some indegionus slangs and words. Before we begin here is trigger warning :- child abuse / homophobic comments / depiction of poverty / verbal abuse/ bullying/ torture / anxiety / trauma / parents neglect In the “One Year Before the Before” chapters, the novel shows that a close friendship can be an extremely valuable source of support and safety. For instance, because of their close friendship, Monday and Claudia are able to effectively navigate a difficult bullying situation at school. Because they have each other to lean on, they usually find that it’s not even worth it to respond to their classmates’ taunts—they’ll never have to try to befriend them, anyway. Further, though Claudia doesn’t realize it until the end of the novel, the girls’ friendship offers Monday an important and necessary escape from the abuse and neglect she suffers at home. At Claudia’s house, Monday is able to see what a healthier relationship between two parents and between parents and children looks like; she’s able to eat full meals and have a clean, warm place to sleep; and perhaps most importantly, she’s temporarily safe from Mrs. Charles’s abuse. Michael, Claudia’s boyfriend in the “After” timeline, even suggests outright that Claudia saved Monday for years, simply by lessening the amount abuse that Monday could have otherwise suffered. no one at Claudia's school, including school counselors and nurses, either report or follow up on a missing child;

Out of Darkness," by Ashley Hope Perez, a novel set in 1937 in New London, Texas that examines segregation, love, family and racism. In the “Before” timeline, Claudia has just returned from spending the summer between seventh and eighth grade with her grandmother in Georgia. It’s been an odd summer because Monday hasn’t written to her like she usually does. Monday’s phone is disconnected, and Monday doesn’t show up to school at all the first week. Claudia finally goes to Monday’s house after school one day, but Monday’s mother, Mrs. Charles, acts aggressive and insists Monday is with her daddy. Claudia is distraught. She believes something may have happened to Monday, but Monday’s disappearance also poses a different problem for Claudia: Monday has been helping Claudia cover up her dyslexia for years, and now, Claudia is on her own. Without Monday’s help, Claudia fears she’ll never get into the prestigious Banneker High, the high school she and Monday planned on attending. Eventually, her teachers identify her dyslexia and send her to the Learning Center, where tutors help her learn to read and manage her diagnosis. Bates said she is stunned that the school district chose to remove books from shelves without an actual challenge.the recently retired school nurse, who could otherwise help Claudia understand Monday's disappearance, is suddenly incapable of remembering anything because she has advanced Alzheimers; Monday's Not Coming is based on two real cases of missing children­ — one that took place in Washington, D.C and one that took place in Detroit. Hard to point to the cases without ruining the ending of the book but both cases involved children who had been missing for up to two years, yet no one noticed [they were missing] until their bodies were found. Extremely touching. This book strikes a beautiful balance between a sweet story of friendship and profound story of loss and confusion. Review to come! I haven't had a case of the post-book sads this bad since I finished Living Dead Girl. The book hangover is going to be real. At first, Bates refused to remove the books. She said four days passed, and she thought the controversy had been resolved.

But when in year 8 Monday didn't came to school after summer breaks Claudia starts searching for her and everyone seems to act strange and nobody tells her where she is? Do you feel that authors have a special responsibility to the victims of the crimes when their books are inspired by events that happened to them or their families? The mystery of what happened to Monday did intrigue me. The big issue with this book is the timeline. It makes more sense once you finish the book because it explains things a bit better. However, this isn't any help when you're reading the book for the first time making that not matter much. I got to the point that I stopped trying to make sense of the timeline and just went with it because I wanted to know where Monday was. Come to find out, there is actually three timelines going on at once. The only bits that made sense were the scenes from before Monday ever went missing because that's pretty clear that this is showing us Claudia & Monday's friendship. There didn't seem to be much importance to those beyond that, though. But the different after bits got very confusing about when they were actually happening. school staff witness violent in-school fights and yet choose not to report them or punish the assailants;The growing issue of missing children may be a surprise to some, while others live and suffer with it every single day. This book is an eye-opener for the US to change and add to its policies for missing children. It is said that a reader relates to a book by either peering through a window or looking at a mirror. The perspective in the novel may prove to be a window for some while for others it is a mirror. Either way, missing children are everywhere, this book allows for people to be reminded of the consequences shown when children are not taken seriously.