While politicians, educators, administrators, community members, and parents argue over what literature is appropriate for students, in the library of Vandegrift High School, the students gather to make those decisions for themselves. In the Fall of 2021, Alyssa Hoy and Ella Scott formed the Vandegrift Banned Book Club in an effort to add student voices to the conversation. The group meets bi-weekly in the school library to read and discuss banned books.
Banned Book Club is a short documentary about a group of high school students fighting to return banned books to classroom shelves in central Texas.