AUTHOR: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
ISBN: 0689826354
Plot Summary: This series follows a pre-teen girl through adolescence, including relationships, struggles with school...all the typical stuff.
Complaints: Homosexuality, Sexual themes.
School board member, Jeanne Newby, said the main character in the series, Alice McKinley, “is a friend they (students) have become too attached to.”
Solonor Says Ban It Because:"The moral of the story is good,” Newby said. “It’s the author’s use of the words. To me, it would evoke emotions in these young children that should not be stirred at this time in life." Well, there you have it.
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