


ĭue to the content in the novel, This One Summer has also been censored and listed on the American Library Association’s “Top Ten Most Challenged Books” list in 20 for the use of its sexual scenes and mature topics. Rose and Windy discover themselves and their sexuality while battling family dynamics and mental disabilities. It is a coming of age story about two teenage friends, Rose and Windy, during a summer in Awago, a small beach town. This One Summer is a graphic novel written by Mariko Tamaki and illustrated by Jillian Tamaki published by First Second Books in 2014. It was previously listed by the ALA as the most challenged book of 2016, when it was pulled from the shelves of a library in Henning, Minnesota, and three libraries in Florida “because it includes LGBT characters, drug use and profanity, and it was considered sexually explicit with mature themes.2014 graphic novel by Mariko and Jilian Tamaki This One Summer Mariko and Jillian Tamaki won multiple awards for This One Summer when it was published in 2014, including the Caldecott Medal, the Printz, and the Governor General’s Literary Award for Children’s Illustration. The book was banned and challenged for “profanity, sexual references, and certain illustrations.” This One Summer, which is published in Canada by Groundwood Books, was listed as the seventh most-challenged book, as determined by media stories tracked by the Office for Intellectual Freedom and incidences of books being challenged reported voluntarily to the OIF. The coming-of-age story co-created by the cousins is about summer-vacation friends who find their beachfront adventures evolving as they befriend some older teens and grapple with family dysfunction. The 2014 graphic novel This One Summer by the Canadian team of Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki has been listed as one of the Most Challenged Books by the American Library Association for the second time.
