Free-speech groups have added their voices to support the teaching of John Green’s YA novel, in the face of one parent’s complaint about its ‘filth’
A school in Kentucky is being urged not to drop John Green’s novel Looking for Alaska from its curriculum, following a complaint from a parent that the book would tempt pupils “to experiment with pornography, sex, drugs, alcohol and profanity”.
Green’s bestselling novel, which won the American Library Association’s Michael L Printz award for “the best book written for teens, based entirely on its literary merit”, tells of the teenager Miles Halter, who is swept away by his feelings when he meets Alaska Young: “If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.” Earlier in April, it was named the most challenged book in the US by the American Library Association.
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