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Patricia C. Wrede, author of young adult fantasy novels:
"Writers are usually the last ones to hear if there's been a
challenge to their books; it's not like there's a notification system. Often,
we hear by accident, as happened in my case. I was speaking to a convention of
teachers and librarians shortly after the Enchanted Forest
books came out; after my talk, one of the teachers came up and told me that she
had nearly been fired when a parent complained that she was 'teaching
witchcraft by using Calling on
Dragons in the classroom.' Fortunately, the principal had a
sense of humor."
Robert McCammon, author of modern horror and historical fiction:
"In 2006, the Hernando
County School
District near Tampa ,
Florida , challenged the novel Boy’s
Life by Robert McCammon. The author flew down to attend the school board
meeting and read an open letter defending his work. The school board decided
not ban Boy’s Life. McCammon wrote:
Many changes in our country have been for the better. One
most certainly has not. The loss of the good guys. The blurring of white hats
and black hats, until all you get is a murky and unreliable gray.
Boy's Life sets out to show the difference
between the good guys and the bad guys. I suppose for that reason alone it is a
hopelessly old fashioned and nostalgic book. Does it have profanity? Indeed it
does, and actually more than I recall putting in there when I wrote it. Is some
of it tough, and nasty, and makes your skin crawl? Absolutely yes.
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Robert McCammon |
You might ask why I would write a book like that, for young
people to read. I would say that I did not write it for young readers. However,
over the course of this book's life, it has struck a chord with young readers.
I don't know why, since it's set in an era that was lost
before they were born. I think it must be something universal, something of
yearning and struggle and change and fitting into a world that is very often
filled with frightening shadows.
One thing that I believe Boy's Life does
very well. Extremely well. Is showing the difference between the good guys and
the bad guys. . . .
To finish, there are so many young people who might
read Boy's Life and see their own creativity take flight, and
possibly their own dreams of writing come true.
And one thing they will take from Boy's Life into
the future is a clear understanding of the difference between the ‘good guys’
and the ‘bad.’”
Read the complete letter at RobertMccammon.com (http://www.robertmccammon.com/articles/boys-life-censorship.html)."
I just discovered Robert McCammon a couple of years ago. What a great writer. I felt a certain amount of shame for not knowing of him previously. I had no idea any of his novels had been banned.
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