{{Short description|American author}} '''Amy Reed''' is an author of young adult novels in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Amy-Reed/48825677|title=Amy Reed|website=Simon & Schuster}}</ref>
Her book ''Nowhere Girls'' has been challenged in some school districts. It is a fictionalized account of a group of girls facing sexual pressures from boys. It is a response to events drawn from media reports of a point scoring system a group of boys adopted for having penetrative sex and the ramifications of the competition.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://flaglerlive.com/amy-reed-the-nowhere-girls/|title=Challenged in Flagler Schools: Amy Reed's "The Nowhere Girls" a Review and Recommendation|date=March 10, 2023}}</ref> It was removed from public school libraries in Martin County, Florida.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pen.org/these-books-are-banned-in-martin-county-florida/|title=These books are banned in Martin County, Florida|first=Lisa|last=Tolin|date=March 13, 2023}}</ref> The group Moms for Liberty included the book on a list of those it sought to have removed from public schools in Florida.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newsweek.com/moms-liberty-banned-book-list-schools-1756574|title=Moms for Liberty banned book list—The novels they want taken out of schools|first=Khaleda|last=Rahman|date=November 3, 2022|website=Newsweek}}</ref>
Kirkus Reviews described the book as "highly nuanced and self-reflective narrative that captures rape culture’s ubiquitous harm without swerving into didactic, one-size-fits-all solutions or relying on false notions of homogenous young womanhood."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/amy-reed/the-nowhere-girls/|title=THE NOWHERE GIRLS | Kirkus Reviews|via=www.kirkusreviews.com}}</ref> Flagler County's public school system voted to keep the book on school bookshelves.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.observerlocalnews.com/news/2023/mar/14/district-book-review-committee-agrees-to-retain-the-nowhere-girls/|title=District book review committee agrees to retain 'The Nowhere Girls'|date=March 14, 2023|website=Observer Local News}}</ref> The book was also challenged in Escambia County, Florida.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wuwf.org/local-news/2023-03-17/four-more-challenged-books-could-be-removed-from-escambia-county-schools|title=Four more challenged books could be removed from Escambia County schools|date=March 17, 2023|website=WUWF}}</ref> The Escambia School Board voted to return it to shelves based on a recommendation from its Materials Review Committee in 2023 after it was challenged, along with three other books, by a Northview High School teacher who alleged LGBTQ indoctrination, race-baiting, and anti-whiteness among her reasons for objecting to the books.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pnj.com/story/news/education/2023/03/21/escambia-school-board-keeps-4-challenged-books-after-7-hours-of-debate/70033181007/|title=Escambia School Board votes to keep 4 challenged books after 7+ hours of debate|website=Pensacola News Journal}}</ref>
==Books== *''Our Stories, Our Voices'' (2018), editor<ref name=kirk/> *''The Boy and Girl Who Broke the World'' (2019)<ref name=kirk>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/author/amy-reed/|title=Amy Reed|website=Kirkus Reviews}}</ref> *''Nowhere Girls'' (2017) *''Tell Me My Name'' (2021)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.statepress.com/article/2021/03/specho-book-review-tell-me-my-name-amy-reed|title=Review: 'Tell Me My Name' is a haunting critique of wealth - The Arizona State Press|website=www.statepress.com}}</ref><ref name=kirk/><ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/782934|title=Tell Me My Name by Amy Reed (review)|first=Kate|last=Quealy-Gainer|date=June 17, 2021|journal=Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books|volume=74|issue=7|pages=313|via=Project MUSE|doi=10.1353/bcc.2021.0117|s2cid=241202694 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> *''Unforgivable'' (2016) *''Invincible'' (2015)<ref name=kirk/> *''Damaged'' (2014)<ref name=pw>{{Cite web|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/authorpage/amy-reed.html|title=Books by Amy Reed and Complete Book Reviews|website=PublishersWeekly.com}}</ref> *''Over You'' (2013)<ref name=pw/> *''Crazy'' (2012) *''Clean'' (2011)<ref name=kirk/> *''Beautiful'' (2009)<ref name=kirk/>
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==External links== *[https://www.amyreedfiction.com/ Her website]
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