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Kissing Stars Spark Media-Center ChallengeThe principal of the Toisnot Middle School in Wilson, North Carolina, has removed from circulation The Kissing Stars by Geralyn Dawson, pending its review by the school’s Media Advisory Committee in January. In the meantime, principal Craig Harris told the December 21 Wilson Daily Times, he and the media center coordinator are documenting independently of each other any passages in the historical romance novel that either considers inappropriate for middle-schoolers.The actions are the result of a reconsideration request from Gary and Mary Strange, the parents of 12-year-old 7th grader Maggie, who borrowed the book from the school library and brought it to her mother’s attention after marking what the girl deemed to be sexually explicit passages. After the couple’s December 20 meeting with Harris, Gary Strange told the Times that the principal implied, because Maggie had sought out The Kissing Stars, which was not required reading, that “it’s her fault the book is in the library.” Strange also said he wanted to identify the other sexually explicit books in the collection, noting that his daughter had already read others without telling her parents, “but we didn’t know what they were.” Posted December 29, 2006. |
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