Amy Anne Ollinger is not like her family.

Instead of being loud and fun, Amy Anne is quiet and timid, preferring the comfort of a book more than anything else. Having conversations where she speaks her mind only come in her head. Even though she’s practically invisible, Amy Anne has to make a lot of sacrifices for her family.

It’s always “Amy Anne, let Angelina use your books as fences so she can be a pony.”Or “Amy Anne, let Alexis use your bed as a ballet post.””Amy Anne, go work on your project somewhere else, this show isn’t for you.”But when she wants something, it’s “Amy Anne, be a good girl and let it go.”

Amy Anne loves when she can curl up in the library with books and nice Mrs. Jones, the librarian, instead of facing all of the chaos at home. Amy Anne’s life is okay, but she wishes it was better.

But when Amy Anne’s favorite book, The Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, gets banned from the school library, among a handful of others, she knows that she has to take a stand.

Even if some people think that books like The Egypt Game and Matilda are wrong for kids in Shelbourne Elementary, they aren’t wrong for the world.

And Amy Anne Ollinger needs to prove that.

/5-Must-read!