Book Challenge Roundup.

In Pennsylvania: 

Manheim Township will pull books by Maya Angelou and Barbara Kingsolver from its ninth-grade English curriculum next fall in response to parents' complaints about sexual references in the novels.

The books will return beginning in 2008, but only after the district holds a public forum with parents to discuss the challenged texts and the entire high school literary canon.

Both books were originally challenged because of sexual content, but according to school board member James Adams, the "extreme, left-wing liberal views" in Animal Dreams are also a problem.  Impressively, Mr. Adams managed to reach that conclusion without having read the book.

In Montana:  Red Sky at Morning by Richard Bradford will stay on the freshman reading list in the Billings School District.