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|region=North America
|artist=Jeannette Walls
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|subject=Explicit Sexuality, Sexual/Gender Orientation, Violence, Youth
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|description_of_incident=Parents of a 9th grader at Traverse City West Senior High School, in Michigan, asked school officials to have a book banned from the freshman honors English summer reading list. The parents object to the content of the memoir: explicit language, references to child molestation, adolescent sexual exploits, and violence as it recounts the author’s experiences growing up with an alcoholic father and a mother who suffered from mental illness.
|description_of_incident=Parents of a 9th grader at Traverse City West Senior High School, in Michigan, asked school officials to have a book banned from the freshman honors English summer reading list. The parents object to the content of the memoir: explicit language, references to child molestation, adolescent sexual exploits, and violence as it recounts the author’s experiences growing up with an alcoholic father and a mother who suffered from mental illness.
|description_of_result=The Traverse City Area Public Schools Board of Education rejected the recommendation to remove a memoir from the freshman honors English summer reading list.
|description_of_result=The Traverse City Area Public Schools Board of Education rejected the recommendation to remove a memoir from the freshman honors English summer reading list.
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|source=http://www.upnorthlive.com/news/story.aspx?id=835736#.UQgva-iiYwM
|source=http://www.upnorthlive.com/news/story.aspx?id=835736#.UQgva-iiYwM
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