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Adam Gabbatt with photographs by Hannah Yoon

‘Adults are banning books, but they’re not asking our opinions’: meet the teens of the Banned Book Club

Members of the Banned Book Club of Kutztown, Pennsylvania, who meet to discuss the works conservatives across America are trying to ban.

“Napoleon’s use of the sheep was notable,” says Jordan Daughtry, 14. She’s clutching a copy of Animal Farm, and referring to the authoritarian Berkshire boar who seizes control of an English acreage, before bending his fellow animals to his will.

The sheep, who represent the unwitting masses in George Orwell’s critique of Joseph Stalin’s totalitarian rule, are “ignorant buffoons”, Daughtry says.

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