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Looking for alaska novel5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Printz Award from the American Library Association, as well as being named in 2005 a LA Times Book Prize Finalist, NY Public Library Book for Teen title, Booklist Editor’s Choice, and School Library Journal Best Book of the year. The book, published in March, 2005, won the 2006 Michael L. ![]() The book had already been banned as pornography in Knox County in March, 2012 after a parent protested that the book went against what she was trying to teach her child. Seizing the opportunity implied by the new law, officials in Sumner County last week banned John Green’s Young Adult novel “ Looking for Alaska” from the school curriculum because it contains an oral sex scene- one of two mildly-erotic passages in the novel. The Tennessee legislature recently passed a bill stating that teachers cannot encourage “gateway sexual activity,” as part of the state\’s abstinence-based sexual education movement. ![]()
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