Monday's Not Coming

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The growing issue of missing children may be a surprise to some, while others live and suffer with it every single day. This book is an eye-opener for the US to change and add to its policies for missing children. It is said that a reader relates to a book by either peering through a window or looking at a mirror. The perspective in the novel may prove to be a window for some while for others it is a mirror. Either way, missing children are everywhere, this book allows for people to be reminded of the consequences shown when children are not taken seriously. I got a call, and I was told that the books were coming off the shelves, whether I was willing to do it or not," she recalled. "And ... I did it. I felt like it was an 'Old Yeller' situation. I'm going to be the one to shoot the dog. ... It happened on my watch. the recently retired school nurse, who could otherwise help Claudia understand Monday's disappearance, is suddenly incapable of remembering anything because she has advanced Alzheimers; He added, "But just because we don't have an official challenge to a book doesn't mean we can't review titles for content." But worse than that was the constant jumping around between different timelines. There's Claudia in the "Before", as she is discovering that Monday has disappeared, Claudia in the "After", which is later when she knows what happened, and then we get chapters like "Two Years Before the Before", which not only sounds stupid, but also makes for a very confusing read.

Carmen Maria Machado’s memoir about being in an abusive queer relationship was permanently pulled from a Texas school district’s book clubs and classroom libraries in December 2021. Like many other LGBTQ+ stories, In the Dream House has been challenged for explicit content with one parent saying that having children read the book was akin to “child abuse.” Machado has been outspoken about the latent homophobia in these claims, writing in The New York Times that “those who seek to ban my book and others like it are trying to exploit fear… and distort it into something ugly, in an attempt to wish away queer experiences.” 7. All Boys Aren’t Blue Before we begin here is trigger warning :- child abuse / homophobic comments / depiction of poverty / verbal abuse/ bullying/ torture / anxiety / trauma / parents neglectWe've done this every couple of weeks in the county system this year," she said. "I read this, and I ask, 'Why did this just happen? What are these books?' ... This is crazy stuff." One of the major problems in this book is the timeline. The first section of this book is "The Before" which is what happened when Claudia was trying to figure out what happened to Monday and where is she. Then we have "The After" which are the events after Claudia found out what truly happened to Monday. We also have other sections like "One year before the before" and "two years before the before" All these different sections make the timeline confusing and throw you for a loop. This also makes the ending super confusing with all these timelines because we find out that Claudia has been reliving Monday's disappearance two years since she found out that Monday died. But we also get these scenes at the end where it shows what happened right after Claudia found out what happened to Monday and it just messes with the timeline quite a bit making it confusing for the reader. Do you feel that authors have a special responsibility to the victims of the crimes when their books are inspired by events that happened to them or their families?

District spokesman Jeff Haney said the policy doesn't apply to this situation, and says the district decided to pull the books off the shelves of the school libraries while district officials review what they now feel is an issue with the policy itself — the fact that challenges to library materials cannot come from outside a school community, nor can they come from the superintendent's office or school board members. I know what you’re thinking. How can a whole person, a kid, disappear and no one say a word? Like, if the sun just up and left one day, you’d think someone would sound an alarm, right? But Ma used to say, not everyone circles the same sun. I never knew what she meant by that until Monday went missing.This is the story of how my best friend disappeared. How nobody noticed she was gone except me. And how nobody cared until they found her . . . one year later.” no fewer than eight people in Child Protective Services are fired ex post facto for not doing their jobs, thereby allowing the tragedy that sits at the heart of the novel (throughout the story, all public service agencies are not just bad, they are criminally negligent); a"When her friend Monday Charles goes missing and Monday's mother refuses to give her a straight answer, Claudia digs into her disappearance."-- |cProvided by publisher.

I always a nagging feeling while reading this but couldn’t figure out what exactly happened to Monday. This was super fast paced, I think the short chapters really helped with that and I read it in 2 days. I loved that Claudia had such supportive and loving parents but they still had rules and expectations for her. I love that there was a love interest that was a smart and kind young man and not a jerk. I loved Claudia and Monday’s relationship and how they looked out for one another. It's first time I am talking about chapter titles , but the way the chapters are named it waa so innovative and creative , like I was really impressed by the revelation which will lead to discovery of why the chapters are named this way . It doesn't make any sense to me," he said. "It's like they're looking for a cause to fight for. Maybe it made more sense 50 years ago." Claudia goes to school as usual...no Monday. No one has seen or heard from her, but no one except for Claudia even seems to be concerned. Everyone brushes Claudia off. Claudia refuses to take no answer for an answer. She needs to see Monday or hear from her to know that she's okay because Monday wouldn't do this. Not even Monday's mother or sister April help. To assert that certified school librarians are trying to harm children by putting pornography in libraries is frankly ludicrous. No librarian that I know wants to hurt a child,” they said., “What we do is we contribute to the academic achievement of our campuses and our school systems.”

Monday's Not Coming is based on two real cases of missing children­ — one that took place in Washington, D.C and one that took place in Detroit. Hard to point to the cases without ruining the ending of the book but both cases involved children who had been missing for up to two years, yet no one noticed [they were missing] until their bodies were found. The novel follows the story of two best friends more like soul sisters Claudia , a middle schooler suffering from dyslexia and Monday( it's a name of character and her siblings are April, Tuesday and August ), child of single household mother who is suffering from issues , Monday is smart in all aspects of life like studies, boys, partying everything ! My only other issue was one of the final plot twists of the story. I believe this story would have been much stronger without the addition. For me, it was just not explained well and starkly stood out compared to the well-developed story that was established. A painfully intelligent tale of child abuse, love and best friends with a few complications but if we ignore them it was WOW, SIMPLY WOW.

Claudia's obviously attentive parents are flabbergasted to discover that their daughter cannot read or write at 14 years old and consequently blame the school (they apparently never examined their daughter's school work or ever had her read anything to them); What are some books, movies, or podcasts based on a true story that you always recommend to friends? Eventually it becomes apparent why the author decided to do this, but by that point I'd already struggled too much. And, to be honest, I find myself once again raising an eyebrow at the ending, rather than being impressed. Readers of Allegedly will be poised in anticipation of some twist and, just as I thought it weakened the ending of that book, I feel like we are again presented with a reveal so out of left field that it's more "seriously?" than "oh my god!". In the “Before” timeline, Claudia has just returned from spending the summer between seventh and eighth grade with her grandmother in Georgia. It’s been an odd summer because Monday hasn’t written to her like she usually does. Monday’s phone is disconnected, and Monday doesn’t show up to school at all the first week. Claudia finally goes to Monday’s house after school one day, but Monday’s mother, Mrs. Charles, acts aggressive and insists Monday is with her daddy. Claudia is distraught. She believes something may have happened to Monday, but Monday’s disappearance also poses a different problem for Claudia: Monday has been helping Claudia cover up her dyslexia for years, and now, Claudia is on her own. Without Monday’s help, Claudia fears she’ll never get into the prestigious Banneker High, the high school she and Monday planned on attending. Eventually, her teachers identify her dyslexia and send her to the Learning Center, where tutors help her learn to read and manage her diagnosis. One school librarian who asked to remain anonymous told Teen Vogue that there are already robust vetting tools for librarians to select books for school libraries. While they respect parents’ rights to advocate for their child, they believe established policies let “cooler heads prevail.”Claudia's school is so competitive and focused on test scores that it fails to recognize her glaring disability when, in fact, those school contexts would highlight her deficiencies; Monday’s Not Coming just shows us how fatal it is to not explicitly show support to young children like Monday and her siblings. We need to remember that children and teens are humans too and that they face the same trauma adults face from a different perspective. Society needs to change so that all calls for help are taken seriously. We need to change the system so that we don’t succumb to the ideology that children and teens’ problems are not as legitimate as those of adults’.