Davis School District · February–April 2026
Lori Warden, Davis School District’s library media and world languages supervisor, supplies school catalogs to Brooke Stephens, RatedBooks founder. Stephens offers to screen purchase lists and later sends spreadsheets matching book reviews to school titles.
At 2:22 p.m., Lori Warden, Davis School District’s library media and world languages supervisor, tells Brooke Stephens she has attached the catalogs for Syracuse Junior High and Legacy Junior High. Stephens replies eight minutes later: “Thank you so much!!!”
Warden’s catalog email and Stephens’s thanks (opens in a new tab)Email PDF · page 1Stephens tells Warden: “Also, if you think it would be beneficial to your librarians to vet their purchase lists then you can white label it and say it’s yours.”
Stephens’s offer to screen purchase lists (opens in a new tab)Email PDF · page 1At 9:17 a.m., Stephens asks Thomas Strain, Davis School District’s teaching and learning director, for the Layton High and Syracuse High library inventories. Three minutes later, Strain copies Warden: “She will be able to get those lists for you.” After Warden replies, Stephens asks for Davis High and Kaysville Junior High lists too.
Stephens’s inventory request and Strain’s reply (opens in a new tab)Email PDF · page 2At 11:58 a.m., Stephens sends Warden a Davis High spreadsheet, describing “the reviews I matched to the titles.” At 12:29 p.m., she sends a Kaysville Junior High spreadsheet and says she is running a report on a book rated level 5.
Stephens’s emails returning review spreadsheets (opens in a new tab)Email PDF · page 1See how Stephens’s reports appear alongside book challenges, Ivory’s bills and the state school board’s library review.
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