10/22/09

NAMPA, Idaho (AP) _ A Caldwell mother says she wants a book
shelved in the juvenile section of the Nampa Public Library banned
from the stacks.

Shelly Gering says her 4-year-old picked out the book, ``How to
Get Suspended and Influence People,'' by Adam Selzer and she was
appalled that the cover included an abstract drawing of a nude
woman and the back cover contains some profanity.

The book explores the theme of censorship through the eyes of a
gifted eighth-grader who is suspended after making an avant-garde
sex-education video for a class project.

Library Director Karen Ganske says she'd be willing to move the
book to the teen section _ even though stories about
middle-schoolers are generally kept in the juvenile section _ but
she won't take the book out of the library. Ganske says the book is
edgy and one kids would likely find fun and thought-provoking, not
inappropriate.

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Information from: Idaho Press-Tribune, http://www.idahopress.com

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