Ban This Book*

 

It all started the day my favorite book went missing from the library. 

I didn’t know it was missing. Not yet. In my mind, it was still there all alone on the shelf like a kid in the cafeteria waiting for her one only friends to come and find her. Witing for me to find her. All I wanted to do was run to the library and check out my favorite book before homeroom, but Rabecca, my one and only real-life friend, was still talking about trademarking our names. 

“Have you ever thought about registering  AmyAnneOllinger.com?” Rebecca asked me.

“No, Rebecca, I have never thought about registering AmyAnneOllinger.com. I am nine years old. Why in the world would I bother to register a Web site with me nama on it when my parents won’t even let me use Facebook yet?

That’s what I thought about saying. What I said instead was, “No.”

“You should,” Rebecca told me. “You’ve got a unique name, but even so, somebody could register it, and then what would you do? Rebecca.com is already gone! I’m ten years old, and already my future intellectual property is being snapped up! Jay Z and Beyonce trademark their baby's nameless than a month after she was born. you’d think my parents would have known enough to do same.” 

Rebecca’s parents were both lawyers and she wanted to be one too when she grew up. I couldn’t imagine a more boring job.

Instead I said, “Yeah.”

I was still itching to get to the library and check out my favorite book. I opened my locker to stuff my backpack inside and gave my mailbox a quick look. Nobody knows how it got started, but everybody at Shelbourne Elementary has these cardboard boxes taped tom the inside door of their locker, just below the little vents they input on there in case you get stuffed in your locker by a bully. If you want to leave a note for somebody you just slip the piece of paper in  the slot and it falls right into the belittle cardboard box. It's such a tradition that Mr. Crutchfield, the custodian, just leaves the boxes in the lockers

from year to year.

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Ban This Book & Alan Gratz

First Edition: August 2017

First Trade Paperback Editiozn: May 2018

* itching i. kaşıntı. You may later feel itching, tingling or pain in a certain area.

*locker : isim    kilitli dolap, malzeme dolabı,  kilitleyen kimse

*custodian: veli