I'm taking a long weekend, with Monday off, for self care reasons and planning to finish the tagged book for #Roll100 #76. I've never read it and have been intrigued lately when I saw some FB friends complaining about this being inappropriate for their kids to read in school. I'm 1/3 into it, and it seems fine for school reading to me. What am I missing?
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TheBookHippie It gets complained about regularly and parents refuse to allow their kids to read it, due to it being too scary, violent and too diabolical … 2mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Pretty phone and love your mug ☕️ 💗 2mo
eri.reads Sadly, there are some of the most sensitive parents I've seen out there who are raising extremely sensitive children. It's not many parents but just enough to cause chaos where there doesn't need to be any. Unfortunately, attacks on books are increasing and the first amendment is being stampeded all over. I just hope when I'm at an age to live peacefully in retirement things have changed for the better. There is always hope... 2mo
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kspenmoll Our 6th grade has always read it- now I want to check & see if this has changed & why. 2mo
Tamra I haven‘t read it, but my daughter did this year for school (8th). She said nothing about it being inappropriate, but she also didn‘t particularly like it either. 2mo
audraelizabeth I read it in 8th grade as well as the outsiders. I felt it was addressed appropriately, course that was in 2003-2004. 2mo
AllDebooks Enjoy your long weekend x 2mo
LiteraryinLawrence I used to teach this to 7th grade. There is a part later in the book that I assume is what people object to (I‘ll put it as a spoiler). 2mo
LiteraryinLawrence When the kids start to develop The Stirrings, which are sexual feelings, the society then has them take a pill to get rid of them and go back to their asexual and more governable selves. The main character describes how the stirrings feel and he has a minimally racy dream. That‘s it, as I remember. Well, in addition to depicting scenes of killing people which they describe in a euphemistic way. So yeah, there are things to object to. 2mo
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TieDyeDude Because it fosters critical thinking and empathy? I read this in middle school, and read it once a year for many years. One of my absolute favorites! 2mo
UwannaPublishme Great to chat today! Love those bookshelves! 2mo
TheBookHippie @TieDyeDude the banning people are wild. The “needle” in the neck is why they banned it here 😝 4w
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