**Thank you to NetGalley, author David Levithan, and Random House Children's, Knopf Books for Young Readers for the eARC of this book in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are my own.**

I love discussing censorship and banned books, so when I saw this book coming out, I was super excited. I was really hoping to love it, and I did enjoy the premise of it, but I just felt like there were too many stories packed into too few pages. 

We read about the story of Donovan and his fifth-grade class who were defending the book The Adventurers because Donovan’s mother wanted to pull it from the classroom; we read about the story of Gideon and Roberto as they navigated new schools, new friends, and new feelings; and we read some of the chapters from The Adventurers, going on crazy and dangerous missions. If the book was longer, I think this tri-perspective could have worked out, but because the book was only 180 pages, I did not feel like I could fully immerse myself in any one story. As an adult reading this book, I think if I struggled to keep tabs on everything, a young reader might struggle with the same. 

This book is very timely and important to current event conversations we are having in the United States right now, I just wish it picked one story to elaborate on and invest in.