I think that's what is being suggested here.īut then this article makes it all even more complicated: It sounds like the group isn't asking for the books to be removed altogether, but for them to be marked with a "Mature Audiences" sticker. So obviously everyone else in town must have those same standards. So MOVING the books in question is overkill, but REMOVING the books in question is not? I guess not, because the books that would be removed are indecent, at least according to the standards of the people raising the challenge. "If they move all the books, the indecent ones are still in with the decent ones and that's not accomplishing anything," Fechtel said.
I think it's odd that this is all going on during Banned Books Week and yet the story doesn't seem to have made it into the more mainstream news - especially when it seems that there are some who are calling for the books in question to not just be moved, but pulled from the library altogether:īut Art Ayris, executive pastor at First Baptist Church of Leesburg, and Fechtel contend that moving all the high-school books is overkill and doesn't address the problem. The two mothers who so disliked The Bermudez Triangle and the Gossip Girl series have found many, many more books to be concerned about.ĭue to the uproar over titles like John Green's Looking for Alaska and Louise Rennison's Startled by His Furry Shorts, Garret Freymann-Weyr's My Heartbeat and Sonya Sones' One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies, the city commissioners of Leesburg voted 4-1 to (if I'm understanding the article correctly) split the young adult collection into a "high school" young adult collection and an-unnamed-but-again-I-assume "younger" young adult collection.
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