The Allen County Public Library Foundation received a $10,000 grant to support Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library after the loss of funding from the state.

This week is National Banned Books Week, and Johnson recently opened a bookstore the Saturday before that sells books by, for and about marginalized people and other books that have been challenged by school or government systems.

The bestselling young adult author says it isn’t the role of a public library to make everyone feel comfortable.