Since I put together a link roundup last weekend, this roundup is a bit shorter than usual. With that, let’s dive right in:

• Rita Meade rounded up a series of tweets by librarian Gretchen Caserotti who sat in on a local school board’s discussion about pulling Sherman Alexie’s Diary of a Part-Time Indian off their supplemental high school reading list. She also included some context for the challenge and the disappointing results for the book. Here’s what censorship looks like. 

• Daniel Ehrenhaft wrote a really interesting piece for the CBC Diversity blog about trying to sell foreign rights of US novels abroad at the Bologna Book Fair. More specifically, he talks about how realistic fiction featuring diverse characters aren’t easy sells overseas and he digs into that a bit. 

• This week, Laurie Halse Anderson did an AMA over at Reddit that is well worth reading. After she did, she sent me a message on Tumblr alerting me she’d linked to a post I wrote and she was curious what I thought about her answer about the “John Greenification” of YA. So I responded. Perhaps it’s teasing to say this conversation between us will be continued in the (very) near future. 

• That leads me into alerting readers that it’s the 15th anniversary of Speak this year, and there’s a mega campaign to raise money for RAINN as a part of the celebration. Details, including how Macmillan is matching donations, can be found here. 

• And continuing this string of links, I wrote about books that make great next reads for fans of Anderson’s Speak at Book Riot this week. These are all titles that tackle sexual assault/sexual violence/rape in some capacity. 

• Ellen Oh wrote about not being the “model minority.” 

• At Latin@s in Kid Lit, Zoraida Cordova talks about what it means when we talk about diversity in YA. 

• I thought this piece about Rick Bayless’s massive Mexican culinary research library was super interesting and a lot of fun to see. 

• Here’s a big roundup of bookish offerings on Netflix. 

• In response to Chloe Grace Moretz’s comment that there wasn’t a lot of YA out there that was as good as If I Stay (where she plays the lead), Courtney Summers wrote this incredible book list of YA that she should know about. Here’s a place to find all kinds of titles you might not be readily aware of but you should read and talk about.