Via the Freedom Forum:
Since Webb City, Mo.\’s school library banned three books in the award-winning Alice series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, patrons can\’t find them on the public library\’s shelves either. That\’s because the decision to ban the books, which deal with an adolescent girl\’s development, only made them popular with readers in this southwest Missouri town.
\”It\’s been on the hold list since the challenge,\” said Sue Oliveira, the public librarian. \”The surest way to get everyone to read a book is to ban it.\”
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