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A teacher was disciplined for giving students access to a banned book list. Now she's speaking out.

Banned books are visible at the Central Library, a branch of the Brooklyn Public Library system, in New York City on Thursday, July 7, 2022.

An Oklahoma teacher left her job after the state's Secretary of Education accused her of giving students "banned and pornographic material." The accusation came after Summer Boismier posted a QR code for the Brooklyn Public Library's "Books UnBanned" program. It allows anyone 13 to 21 years old to access the library's entire digital collection for free.

She is in New York this week, speaking out against banning books. She and Brooklyn Public Library President Linda Johnson spoke with WNYC's Morning Edition host Michael Hill about what happened, and the growing fight over book bans.

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