TBO.com Reports References to breasts and suicide prompted Hillsborough County school administrators to yank two books from a fourth-grade reading list.
Parents and teachers “inundated” the district with complaints about the books, one administrator wrote in a letter to schools. The titles appeared on a state-recommended reading list for elementary school students.
“My Brother’s Hero” and “Lily’s Ghosts” are on the Sunshine State Young Reader’s Award list of books for third- through fifth-graders, but both are more suitable for students of middle school age, said Barbara Rooks, the school district’s supervisor of elementary media centers.
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