The Last Safe Place on Earth
 

The Last Safe Place on Earth (Laurel Leaf Books)

by Richard Peck

Todd, 15, thinks life in the quality community of Walden Woods is perfect, until Laurel, his dream girl, comes to babysit for his sister and reveals the forces of fundamentalism and censorship at work in the town.



A provocative new novel by a highly honored author that speaks to today's issues of censorship and fundamentalism. (read review)

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cookiegirl
  • Rated 2 stars

An interesting quick read, but I'm not sure I agree with its message. While it does bring up good questions about censorship, safety, community, and social responsibility, I'm not sure it came to the right conclusions. It used one of the oldest tricks in the book--religious fanaticism--to paint religion as bad, and open-mindedness as good, while it didn't create a true-to-life picture of either side. By having the religious groups desire to ban books like A Diary of Anne Frank, it gave us no...

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