This year, .They鈥檒l join a long line of YA books and books taught in middle and high school that have been adapted to film鈥攕ee .
This is great, right? But, if you鈥檙e teaching the book or if it鈥檚 in your classroom library, watch out for challenges.
Films, their hype and their trailers, make books more accessible, lend them the 鈥渃ool鈥� factor for teens and the 鈥渕aybe-I shouldn鈥檛-let-my-kid-watch-this鈥� notion for parents. Often the film advertises the aspects of the book that people love to challenge鈥攍anguage and events pulled out of the context of the entire story and theme.
Take A Wrinkle in Time which is due out in film in March.
The book is no stranger to challenges but it鈥檚 been awhile. See, 鈥�.鈥澛燤y unfortunate bets are that Wrinkle will both turn up in classrooms and be challenged again. Golly, I hope I鈥檓 wrong!
Angie Thomas鈥� hit novel, The Hate U Give, has been out just less than a year. Yet it鈥檚 cleaned up on , won the hearts of teachers and students, and is being checked out of libraries and taught. Now the novel is being challenged in Texas and Missiouri. I can only imagine what鈥檚 going to happen later this year when the comes out.聽 Well, watch out for the challenges.
Remember that, despite the fact that many schools use them as gatekeepers for what their students can watch, MPAA ratings aren鈥檛 ratings of educational value. Be prepared with .聽 The is here to help should a challenge arise.