Should ‘raunchy’ be the 4th ‘R’? is another article attacking teen literature for being too graphic sexually. This article focuses on graphic books in school libraries. This writer calls for the school to require parental permission for kids to read contested books where a review panel cannot agree on the appropriateness of the book. Sigh.
I would emphasize that all parents have the right to question books in their childrens’ schools. All parents have the right to decide for THEIR CHILDREN, but they do not have the right to decide for all children in their community.
I would guess that the number of public school libraries with these graphic novels is very small. When I look for Doing It by Burgess in our 30 member PUBLIC library database, I find that only two of the libraries were brave enough to purchase it. If public libraries were shying away from the title, school libraries would be even more skittish.
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Waking Brain Cells 
School has started up and it is hunting season. I am so tired of these articles about the “new” YA lit. I think the articles are more sensational than the books themselves.
Let us allow parents to make choices for their own children, NOT for mine.
Also, do not take a choice away from a kid who does not have the option of running over to B&N to buy the book. Heck, some kids never even make it to the public library. They NEED access to books in their school library.
ACT reports that the reading level of kids going to college this year is at an all time low. Could we at least provide them with books they WANT to read? Maybe they will actually read them and improve. Censors make me nuts.
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