Attack of the Black Rectangles

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

When Mac first opens his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic and finds some words blacked out, he thinks it must be a mistake. But then when he and his friends discover what the missing words are, he's outraged.

Someone in his school is trying to prevent kids from reading the full story.

But who?

Even though his unreliable dad tells him to not get so emotional about a book (or anything else), Mac has been raised by his mom and grandad to call out things that are wrong. He and his friends head to the principal's office to protest the censorship... but her response doesn't take them seriously.

So many adults want Mac to keep his words to himself.

Mac's about to see the power of letting them out.

In Attack of the Black Rectangles, acclaimed author Amy Sarig King shows all the ways truth can be hard... but still worth fighting for.

Author: A. S. King
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Published: 09/06/2022
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781338680522
Audience: Ages 9-12

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/01/2022
Booklist 08/01/2022 pg. 51
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2022
School Library Journal 09/01/2022 pg. 110
Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2022 pg. 88
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 10/01/2022
Shelf Awareness 09/04/2022