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[quote=Anonymous]Thanks to this thread, I read Lawn Boy over the weekend. I actually mean the "thank you" because I really liked it. A lot. This book is absolutely not, at all, in any definition of the word, pornographic. It is a pretty gentle and ultimately uplifting coming-of-age story that is more about class issues than sexuality - though obviously (SPOILER) the "coming out" part at the end is a big deal.

I had to come back to this thread to try to decipher what ban-worthy aspect people might be referring to. The flashback with his childhood friend? Really?! What's especially hard to believe about identifying that scene as the big problem is that there is a similar level of explicit, also very short but *straight* flashback a couple of chapters later.

There must be thousands of more sexually explicit books in the libraries! Should I start naming classics?!

If those asking for Lawn Boy to be banned from HS libraries want all sexually explicit books to be banned, then I respect your position. I also respectfully disagree.

I hate graphic novels, but I'll read Gender Queer next.

This is an anonymous forum and you all don't know me, but for the record. I am not an activist. I have kids at FCPS including high schoolers who have gone all the way through. I don't like the way my daughter wants to dress and all the other fuddy-duddy things of my generation and, still, Lawn Boy is not pornographic. It does portray a world in which, for the characters the reader likes and identifies with, it is ok to be gay. 
 
In any case, now that I have read it, I can't help but assume that anyone who wants to ban it either a) has not read it or b) doesn't want books where it is ok to be gay.

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