The Giver challenged in Kansas.

From CJOnline:

School board members in Seaman Unified School District 345 will consider a parent's request tonight that they pull the book "The Giver" from circulation at Rochester Elementary School.

Published in 1993, Louis Lowry's "The Giver" is No. 11 on the American Library Association's 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999. It won a Newbery Medal but has drawn opposition for how it deals with suicide and euthanasia.

A committee of teachers, administrators and parents has recommended that the book remain in the school library. Superintendent Mike Mathes said such challenges are rare, noting this is the third book challenge he has seen in his four years with the district.

It's Lois.  That's all I really have to say.

Oh.  And this.  Will you PLEASE just GIVE IT UP?  You are making me crazy with your book challenges.

Here.  This lady says it better.

From the Baltimore Sun:

Judith Krug, director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom at the library association, said she has witnessed a recent surge in attempts to ban books, but that these efforts have generally been less successful. She notes that book protesters no longer feel stigmatized by expressing what might be considered an unpopular opinion or a singularly held position.

In responding to those protesting teen book content, she often resorts to an analogy.

"I tell them if you want to keep your kids safe around the swimming pool, you can put up fences, you can provide a lifeguard," she says. "But the best way to protect them is to teach them to swim."

Comments

[Keke]

The Giver is a good book. It's interesting. The book keeps you wonting to know more.

[MIKE]

I believe that The Giver should never be banned any where in the United States. I have much response to support what I say. First of all I have read the book my self when I was 10 years old. I was a 5th grader at the time that I read this book. After I read this book it was my favorite novel for years. I don’t know how anybody could ever challenge this book. Kids need to be exposed to this kind of thing and the real world. You can’t keep your kid under your wing forever. Also, what did we come to this country for in the first place? Freedom. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press. The last part is the most important, Freedom of press. Writing a book does fall under Freedom of Press. So people can’t ban a book that somebody has written for their pleasure and expression.

[Garret]

I feel that The Giver should not be banned from any libraries. Yes somethings might be inappropriate from young readers but this is a thrilling novel.