Charles Davis writes \”From story at
KansasCity.com
A southwest Missouri school district compromised by banning three books and limiting access to three others in a series that uses an adolescent girl named Alice to
explore the issues of growth, development and sexuality.
The Webb City school board voted Tuesday to remove \”Achingly Alice,\” \”Alice in Lace\” and \”The Grooming of Alice\” from the
elementary school library. The books in the popular series had previously been available to fifth- and sixth-grade students. \”
The same type of thing is happening in Connecticut as well, where two residents want a pair of Newbery Medal-winning novels removed from the Cromwell middle school\’s curriculum. The pair allege that the books, The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare and Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson, promote witchcraft and violence and have filed a petition asking school officials to remove them.
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