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February 10, 2005

Mean Lady Wants to Ban Books

There's this mean lady in Polk County, FL that thinks a book that has the word 'damn' in it should be banned from the school library.

Kristi Hardee hopes her quest to ban the book, Anastasia Krupnik by Newbery award-winner Lois Lowry, from Spook Hill Elementary in Lake Wales will lead to a policy allowing for a countywide ban on books deemed offensive.

And to prove her point, she has kept the book checked out so none of the other kids can get to it.

I think that mommies and daddies should get to decide what books their own kids read, and not Mrs. Hardees.