Attack of the Black Rectangles

Award-winning author Amy Sarig King takes on censorship and intolerance in a novel she was born to write.



Everyone in town knows and fears Ms. Laura Samuel Sett. She is the town watchdog, always on the lookout for unsavory words and the unsavory people who use them.

She is also Mac's sixth-grade teacher.

Mac and his friends are outraged when they discovered that their class copies of Jane Yolen's THE DEVIL'S ARITHMETIC have certain works blacked out. Mac has been raised by his mom and grandad to call out things that are wrong, so he and his friends head to the principal's office to protest the censorship. Her response isn't reassuring -- so the protest grows.

In ATTACK OF THE BLACK RECTANGLES, acclaimed author A. S. King shows all the ways truth can be hard... but still worth fighting for.