With the Banned Book Club: Wicked

Join us for a new monthly book club exploring books that have been banned or challenged. This month, we're reading Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.  

A library card is required to register. Register for a copy of the book starting on March 11. Staff will notify you when a copy of the book is checked out to your account and is ready for pickup.

Please note that more than two cancellations will temporarily disable you from registering for this club.

Summary: Years before Dorothy and her dog crash-land, another little girl makes her presence known in Oz. This girl, Elphaba, is born with emerald-green skin—no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz, where superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or overcome the natural disasters of flood and famine. Still, Elphaba is smart, and by the time she enters Shiz University, she becomes a member of a charmed circle of Oz’s most promising young citizens.

But Elphaba’s Oz is no utopia. The Wizard’s secret police are everywhere. Animals—those creatures with voices, souls, and minds—are threatened with exile. Young Elphaba, green and wild and misunderstood, is determined to protect the Animals—even if it means combating the mysterious Wizard, even if it means risking her single chance at romance. Ever wiser in guilt and sorrow, she can find herself grateful when the world declares her a witch. And she can even make herself glad for that young girl from Kansas.