meg cabot doesn't need much of an introduction. d to have you here >> thank you so much for havin me >> you know, your book cover really interesting and important themes but as we were sort of putting this together, we were tryin to decide some of the things from the book to put into th discussion, and my executive producer described me as a pearl clutching prude for no this is fairly using the sam language you use in your book. i don't think i am but that's kind of the point right? that's the issue the issue is you write about things that some parents might think, they don't want to talk about them they don't want to use tha kind of language, but you ar writing because that is ho kids talk. >> it is, and that is one of the reasons why i wrote th book i felt like there were a lot o kids, at least when i wa growing up and still to this day, whose parent don't tell them about these kinds o things in many places, school is no telling them about these kinds of things. it's a really important issue. i felt like, you know, all d it, then

but meg cabot has faced numerous challenges and bans for many of her books. or not. meg cabot and your 80 plus staple of published works to find an entire generation of young readers, especially women. by reexamining so-called chick lets and reclaiming it, cabot was among the first to skillfully join a strong woman, join a strong woman protagonist with the ferocious readability of a romance novel. all cabins books are, of course, the medically very, most feature leading women who are funny, strong, and unflinchingly sex positive. ready or not centers around one such woman, 17 year old sam, who is beginning to explore what a consensual sexual relationship looks like with her boyfriend, who also happens to be the president's son. don't miss this important and timely conversation with meg cabot next weekend, on the velshi banned book club. bill she has two other books on tap in the weeks. you sound like a white girl, the case for rejecting assimilation bite to alyssa arts, and how the garcia girls lost their accents by julia alvarez. please pick up your copies a

a special edition of the velshi banned book club ban featuring the celebrated young adult author meg cabot -- her 2005 book ready or not, cabot explores what consenting sex looks like for american teenagers and that makes it a crucial bit complicated read for teens on the parents. she joins me tomorrow at 10 am eastern. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle's begins now. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tonight, donald trump's legal huddle. meeting with his lawyers to talk about fighting a potential criminal indictment. all while his potential 2024 challenger takes's new slogan to a key state. then the largest bank failures since 2008. s v b, silicon valley bank imploding in just 30 hours. how did it happen and what are the consequences? and our friday night cap is here talking all about the biggest stories of the week and some you may have missed. the 11th hour getting underway right now. good evening once again. i'm stephanie ruhle. it is finally friday and you know what that means! means we are closing out the week with a friday night cap and you do not want to miss a minute. so get comfortable and settle in beca

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a special edition of the velshi banned book club ban featuring the celebrated young adult author meg cabotcrucial bit complicated read for teens on the parents. she joins me tomorrow at 10 am eastern. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle's begins now. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tonight, donald trump's legal huddle. meeting with his lawyers to talk about fighting a potential criminal indictment. all