The ghost files book6/6/2023 ULABY: That's Pensacola parent Aaron Schneier at the meeting where school board member Kevin Adams voted to remove "Perks Of Being A Wallflower" from an optional 12th grade novel study. Christian activists testified at multiple school board meetings.ĪARON SCHNEIER: It's not censorship to not have a bunch of erotic, sexually explicit books in school. But last fall, a local high school teacher challenged it and more than a hundred other books. ULABY: "The Perks Of Being A Wallflower" was also a hit movie. LOGAN LERMAN: (As Charlie) I really want to turn things around this year. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER") They range from a Nobel Prize winner's first novel to a popular coming-of-age bestseller that came out in the 1990s. NEDA ULABY, BYLINE: Escambia County in northwest Florida has removed or restricted at least 16 books from public school libraries and classrooms. As NPR's Neda Ulaby reports, Penguin Random House is part of a coalition including parents and authors that filed a federal lawsuit today challenging bans in one Florida county. The largest book publisher in the country has joined forces with PEN America to push back against book banning.
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