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Book challenges in two districts end with library retention of materials.

Posted by Kimberly Brosan on January 15, 2009 at 5:23am
According to the Associated Press, The Bunny Suicides will remain on the shelves in Central Linn High School Library. Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian will be removed from classroom study but will be allowed to remain in the library. Full article is available from AP. I've had some positive resolutions to book challenges, but I also had one outrageous situation where a parent made her teenage foster child burn a library book Drawing the Human Form and it took me quite some time to recover from the shock that someone would actually burn a book instead of following through with a challenge. If anyone else would like to comment on their experiences with book challenges, I'd be interested to hear about them.
Tags: bookchallenges, censorship, intellectualfreedom, schoollibrary
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