Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kelly Yang is the author of Front Desk. (Photo and book jacket images courtesy of Scholastic) Right in the midst of Banned Books ...

Front Desk was published in 2018, and I instantly knew it was a magnificent and multi-layered story that everyone should read. At the time I was in an adult book group, but when it was my choice to ...

Kelly Yang’s “Front Desk” first came to my attention via an October 2021 news story about its banning at an elementary school in New York. As a teacher read it aloud to her 5th grade class, a school ...