Thanks to Sue for sending the link to this one from Excite News. For the Associated Press, (Denver, CO), author Colleen Slevin writes…
\”In a world where twins are illegal, a baby twin boy is \”released\” from life with a fatal injection. A girl, overcome with painful memories in a utopian society in which strong feelings are frowned upon, administers the fatal needle herself. The topics in Lois Lowry\’s \”The Giver\” have created controversy in libraries and classrooms across the country since it was first published in 1993. Parent opposition to the book\’s treatment of suicide and euthanasia helped it reach No. 11 on the American Library Association\’s list of most challenged books of the 1990s. The Newberry Medal winner was No. 10 on the last year\’s list, which was headed by \”Harry Potter.\” Lowry\’s book has been challenged in schools in at least five states since 1999, sometimes more than once.\” [more…]
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