Amy Reed

{{Short description|American author}}

Amy Reed is an author of young adult novels in the United States.{{Cite web|url=https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Amy-Reed/48825677|title=Amy Reed|website=Simon & Schuster}}

Her book Nowhere Girls has been challenged in some school districts. It is a fictionalized account of a group of girls facing sexual pressures from boys. It is a response to events drawn from media reports of a point scoring system a group of boys adopted for having penetrative sex and the ramifications of the competition.{{Cite web|url=https://flaglerlive.com/amy-reed-the-nowhere-girls/|title=Challenged in Flagler Schools: Amy Reed's "The Nowhere Girls" a Review and Recommendation|date=March 10, 2023}} It was removed from public school libraries in Martin County, Florida.{{Cite web|url=https://pen.org/these-books-are-banned-in-martin-county-florida/|title=These books are banned in Martin County, Florida|first=Lisa|last=Tolin|date=March 13, 2023}} Also in Florida, the group Moms for Liberty included the book on a list of those it sought

to have removed from public schools in Florida.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newsweek.com/moms-liberty-banned-book-list-schools-1756574|title=Moms for Liberty banned book list—The novels they want taken out of schools|first=Khaleda|last=Rahman|date=November 3, 2022|website=Newsweek}} Kirkus Reviews described the book as "highly nuanced and self-reflective narrative that captures rape culture’s ubiquitous harm without swerving into didactic, one-size-fits-all solutions or relying on false notions of homogenous young womanhood."{{Cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/amy-reed/the-nowhere-girls/|title=THE NOWHERE GIRLS | Kirkus Reviews|via=www.kirkusreviews.com}} Flagler County's public school system voted to keep the book on school bookshelves.{{Cite web|url=https://www.observerlocalnews.com/news/2023/mar/14/district-book-review-committee-agrees-to-retain-the-nowhere-girls/|title=District book review committee agrees to retain 'The Nowhere Girls'|date=March 14, 2023|website=Observer Local News}} The book was also challenged in Escambia County, Florida.{{Cite web|url=https://www.wuwf.org/local-news/2023-03-17/four-more-challenged-books-could-be-removed-from-escambia-county-schools|title=Four more challenged books could be removed from Escambia County schools|date=March 17, 2023|website=WUWF}} The Escambia School Board voted to return it to shelves based on a recommendation from its Materials Review Committee in 2023 after it was challenged, along with three other books, by a Northview High School teacher who alleged LGBTQ indoctrination, race-baiting, and anti-whiteness among her reasons for objecting to the books.{{Cite web|url=https://www.pnj.com/story/news/education/2023/03/21/escambia-school-board-keeps-4-challenged-books-after-7-hours-of-debate/70033181007/|title=Escambia School Board votes to keep 4 challenged books after 7+ hours of debate|website=Pensacola News Journal}}