What is a boy to do when his teacher-mother's historical novel is given as an example of the kind of "pornography" that should be banned from schools and libraries?.
Eleven-year-old Kate's ordinary life in a small Massachusetts town becomes quite extraordinary when she becomes involved with Maudie Schmidt and an inter-school reading project.
Arthur and his friends can hardly wait for the latest Scare-Your-Pants-Off Club book to arrive at the library, but when they find the popular series has been banned, they decide they have to take action to get their books back.
