There was a lot of potential here, but I fear discussing oppression and fascism with nary a mention of queer or disabled folk gives me the ick. If the US of A put instituted an act that allows the government to take away children those two groups would end up on the top of the list regardless of which minority group was scapegoated in the first place. 

This book would also have me believe this universe has few to no childless adults and no one is using the internet as a form of resistance. If ten year-olds are getting taken away from their parents you best believe they know where to go on the internet to talk about their location. It would have been much more believable to have these kids in secret compounds or something (ei the way the government does it now), but these kids are just out there with regular families going to school with friends who have cell phone with the internet on them. 

For the most part I like the way librarians are portrayed here, with two addendum's: 
1) They would not look down as a whole on any other acts of rebellion, we know that a movement takes all people and types of resistance to work
2) Library books banned by the government are absolutely being saved somewhere, Librarians aren't out here composting important works of literature with out finding hiding spots where ever they can.

ALSO THE INTERNET EXISTS IN THIS UNIVERSE! Some one in another country would absolutely be running a website with all this kid's mom's poetry one it. The idea that he has to find it by asking for people to tell him what they remember is so silly. Like he can just go to the Minecraft library (www.uncensoredlibrary.com) and it is probably there!

In spite of all the complaining I have just done, the writing for this book is great. It was easy to read so in spite of the bits of plot that aggravate me I think this is perfectly a readable novel that for some would be a great first taste of dystopian fiction.