I ran across this site the other day. The authors of the website list hundreds of books that they consider inappropriate, along with lengthy excerpts from each book that they find objectionable.
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A place for Colorado libraries to have their say on intellectual freedom topics.
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interesting website Judy - they seem to have a lot of links to this site http://www.classkc.org/ - try looking through their lists and detailed analyses of why they shouldn't be on school reading lists
My son brought a book home from his school library. The book entitled Bone Meal talks about a man and wife who kidnap boys who come to their door. The couple kill the boys and grind them up into pieces to bury them in their garden. Then their teenage daughter wants to get revenge on a boy she knows, so she tricks him into coming to her house and her father kills him by cutting off his head with a shovel and the daughter then eagerly want to drops his decapitated head into the shredder to "make him suffer".
This was in the Elementary school library!
What we need is a policy of reviewing books prior to school acceptance.
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