Amidst national conversations on what reading content children should have access to, an author whose work was at the center of a fight around youth books at the Fairhope Public Library is preaching its role in providing both educational spaces and material.

During the Fairhope library’s 125-year-celebration, Partricia McCormick, whose 2006 book “Sold,” which centers around child sex trafficking, told a packed room of attendees that access to books like hers and many others via public libraries is essential to the nation’s youth.

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