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|description_of_result=In the spirit of opposition that the nation expressed in response to the complaining parent's request for the book to be removed from the school district, a review committee in the school district has agreed to deny the parent's plea. Thus, Sherman Alexie's novel will be kept in Helena School district schools in support of the high school English curriculum. | |description_of_result=In the spirit of opposition that the nation expressed in response to the complaining parent's request for the book to be removed from the school district, a review committee in the school district has agreed to deny the parent's plea. Thus, Sherman Alexie's novel will be kept in Helena School district schools in support of the high school English curriculum. | ||
|source=http://helenair.com/news/article_02cc1a9a-2f66-11e0-a93b-001cc4c03286.html | |source=http://helenair.com/news/article_02cc1a9a-2f66-11e0-a93b-001cc4c03286.html | ||
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|ongoing=yes | |||
|year=2014 | |||
|region=North America | |||
|artist=Sherman Alexie | |||
|subject=Explicit Sexuality, Racial/Ethnic, Violence, Youth | |||
|confronting_bodies=Grandmother, Frankie Wood | |||
|medium=Literature | |||
|date_of_action=June 2014 | |||
|location=Brunswick County, NC | |||
|description_of_content=''The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian'' is a 2007 novel for young adults written by Sherman Alexie and illustrated by Ellen Forney. The novel is a first-person narrative by Native American teenager Arnold Spirit Jr., also known as "Junior", a 14-year-old budding cartoonist. The book details Arnold's life on the Spokane Indian Reservation and his decision, upon encouragement from a reservation high school teacher, to go to an all-white public high school in the off-reservation town of Reardan, Washington. Junior traverses through the endemic alcoholism, poverty and hopelessness he sees on the reservation, as well as the bullies and racism he encounters at school. | |||
|description_of_incident=The book is being challenged in Brunswick County schools by Frankie Wood, a great-grandmother who has no children in the schools but objects with the content of the book. She began a petition in several churches to remove the book from classrooms and school libraries stating that the language in the text was undesirable and that she objected with references to masturbation. | |||
|description_of_result=Ms. Wood was invited to speak at the school board meeting on June 3, 2014. She stated that upon speaking with the Superintendent Edward Pruden she was discouraged about moving forward because the defeat of ''The Color Purple'' months earlier. The case is still ongoing. | |||
|source=http://cbldf.org/2014/06/north-carolina-woman-challenges-disgusting-absolutely-true-diary/ | |||
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