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Tony Correia

September 05th, 2025

The issue of book banning in school libraries is the subject of Tony Correia’s middle-grade title Checked Out (Orca $10.95). Thirteen-year-old Seth, a queer kid, is a budding social influencer with 100,000 followers. When he is persuaded to promote library books with LGBTQ+ content at their school by another gay teen, they encounter a conservative classmate determined to undermine their efforts. It doesn’t help that Seth worries about the effect of his activism on his YouTube channel. Correia, is the author of four hi-lo (high interest, accessible reading) novels for young adults. His first full-length YA novel, a historical novel for queer youth, is One Summer in Vancouver (Lorimer, 2017). 9781459842458

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