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Took a chance on a challenged book my kid brought home from school
My 13 year old came back from the library with 'The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian' and I'll be honest, I was worried. I'd heard the usual talk about language and some of the content. But I sat down and read it over three nights last week. That book hits hard on what it's actually like growing up poor and caught between two worlds. The humor caught me off guard, it made me laugh out loud a few times. By the end I realized the people calling to ban it probably never read past the first chapter. Has anyone else found a banned book that surprised them way more than they expected?
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sethtorres13d ago
Wait hold on, are we really acting like a middle school book is that deep? It's a story about a kid switching schools, not exactly high art. People get way too dramatic about what kids read these days.
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