The Higher Power of Lucky
The children's book "The Higher Power of Lucky" by Susan Patron is causing quite a stir among school librarians everywhere.
On the first page, the book’s heroine, a scrappy 10-year-old orphan named Lucky Trimble, hears the word "scrotum" when another character says he saw a rattlesnake bite his dog, Roy, on the scrotum.
“Scrotum sounded to Lucky like something green that comes up when you have the flu and cough too much,” the book continues. “It sounded medical and secret, but also important.”
The Newbery-award winning book is being pulled of the shelves of libraries across the country. Good Lord, what has this world come to? My kids have to use public computers at the library with perverts who are allowed to download porn and kids in school can't read the word scrotum? Gimme a break.
posted by Claire @ 2/22/2007 02:34:00 PM
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