Challenge news.
- Michigan's Plymouth-Canton Community School district
will continue to use Toni Morrison's Beloved in their AP English classes.
- Uprise Books: "providing new banned and challenged books to underprivileged teens free of charge".
- Some parents in Kentucky are "outraged" about Sherman Alexie's Part-time Indian:
"I was angry, I was enraged," said Vincent. "She knows about a boy and a girl, she knows about sex. But she doesn't know the details of masturbation."
Oh, dear. She sounds to me like someone suffering from serious denial, but I'm sure she knows her daughter better than I do.
Book links:
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian.
Beloved: Amazon | Indiebound.