It wasn’t a physical school library book that sent Betsy Harrington into a state of alarm about high school reading material. It was an app.
Harrington’s son, a student at Hillsboro-Deering High School, had found a book on Sora, an app that gives students in participating schools access to thousands of e-books to borrow on their own.
The book, The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School, was a 2022 National Book Award finalist, described as “a sharply funny and moving debut novel about a queer Mexican American girl navigating Catholic school while falling in love and learning to celebrate her true self.”
