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Following the Nampa [Idaho] School District's decision to ban 22 books from its school libraries last month, Rediscovered Books, with stores in Boise and Caldwell, distributed free copies of those titles to students and other members of the community at an event Wednesday evening at Flying M Coffee Garage in Nampa.
Everyone could stop by and take home at least one free book, while Nampa students and teachers were allowed to take three books, provided they showed proof of identification. The Rediscovered Books team told 103.5 Kiss FM that "more than 1,250 books from the banned list were donated in just one week."
Rediscovered Books wrote on Twitter that they "refuse to take events like this lightly or quietly." In addition to the distribution at Flying M Coffee Garage, the bookstore created displays featuring the banned titles and denouncing censorship.
Books on the list included The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell and Looking for Alaska by John Green, among others. The purported reason for the bans was sexual and explicit content.