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School officials in Florida have banned a book about banning books. The Indian River County School Board voted to remove Alan Gratz’s somewhat provocatively titled Ban This Book, a novel about a girl who creates a secret library filled with forbidden texts. Board member Kevin McDonald said its title and theme “challenges our authority”.
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