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|artist=Stephen Chybosky | |artist=Stephen Chybosky | ||
|subject=Explicit Sexuality, Sexual/Gender Orientation, Youth | |subject=Explicit Sexuality, Sexual/Gender Orientation, Youth | ||
|confronting_bodies=Parents | |||
|medium=Literature | |medium=Literature | ||
|date_of_action=November 30, 2012 | |date_of_action=November 30, 2012 | ||
|location=Grandview Heights, Ohio | |location=Grandview Heights, Ohio | ||
|description_of_content=The book is about a high school boy, Charlie, who is trying to learn to "participate" in life. He befriends a group of interesting older kids who introduce him to partying and other activities. In letters that Charlie writes to an anonymous stranger, he talks about his family, his friends, and his complicated, often overwhelming, feelings about growing up. | |||
|description_of_incident=A parent wrote to a member of the school board, citing a two-page passage narrating a date-rape scene, other parents emailed the superintendent in an attempt to ban Chbosky’s book. | |||
|description_of_result=The district decided not to ban the book. | |||
|image=THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER Stephen Chbosky1x1.jpg | |image=THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER Stephen Chbosky1x1.jpg | ||
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