‘Adults are banning books, but they’re not asking our opinions’: meet the teens of the Banned Book Club

Conservatives are pushing to ban books from school libraries. At a time of crisis, a group of Pennsylvania teenagers are fighting back

Napoleon's use of the sheep was notable," says Jordan Daughtry, 14. She's clutching a copy of Animal Farm, and referring to the authoritarian Berkshire boar who seizes control of an English acreage, before bending his fellow animals to his will.

The sheep, who represent the unwitting masses in George Orwell's critique of Joseph Stalin's totalitarian rule, are ignorant buffoons", Daughtry says.

Kiara Daughtry, left, and Lena Cackley.