Sutherland’s Wings of Fire Series and Neil Gaiman’s Coraline. “He says he likes Stephen King’s writing style better.”Ītticus began asking her about Stephen King after reading Tui T. “He’s looking at me like, ‘This is a very dark book,’” she reported. She and her son gave The Hunger Games a try as bedtime reading. I recommended a book to him that I think he will like, he’s got it now.” The text continued, “Of course it is a family decision whether he reads the book at home or not, but I am not comfortable having this book at school in a classroom of 11-year-olds. The teacher wrote: “Hi, are you aware that Atticus brought a copy of Cujo by Stephen King to school today? This is the Goodreads write-up: ‘This book deals with mature themes, contains a decent amount of strong language, depicts pretty graphic violence, and has fairly explicit sexual acts. Her son’s name is Atticus, the name of the crusading father in To Kill a Mockingbird. Alexander is a single mom and a writer whose work has ranged from screenplays to a novel about the events leading up to the burning of the great library in Alexandria, Egypt. And it was about a novel that the boy had picked out with her on a trip to a bookstore. It was from her 11-year-old son’s fifth-grade teacher at Skyline Elementary School in Solana Beach, California. The text that Kaia Alexander received on Thursday was not from some right-wing group bent on banning books in schools in the supposed name of liberty and parental rights.
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