AUTHOR: Jean Craighead George
ISBN: 0064400581
Plot Summary: An Eskimo girl runs away from home and a forced marriage, gets lost on the Tundra, and is befriended by a pack of wolves.
Complaints: Sexual themes, anti-family
Challenged in Mexico, Mo. (1982) because of the book's "socialist, communist, evolutionary, and anti-family themes." Challenged in Littleton, Colo. (1989) school libraries because "the subject matter was better suited to older students, not sixth graders." Challenged at the Erie Elementary School in Chandler, Ariz. (1994) because the book includes a passage that some parents found inappropriate in which a man forcibly kisses his wife. Challenged in the classrooms and school libraries in Palmdale, Calif. (1995) because the book describes a rape. Removed from the sixth-grade curriculum of the New Brighton Area School District in Pulaski Township, Pa. (1996) because of a graphic marital rape scene. Challenged at the Hanson Lane Elementary School in Ramona, Calif. (1996) because the award-winning book includes an attempted rape of a 13-year-old girl.
Solonor Says Ban It Because: Don't you see the theme here? Almost all of these books are about gays, women and minorities. We don't need to stir up this kind of trouble in schools.
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ALA Editions: Interview with Pat Scales