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Friday, January 9, 2009

Mother Fights 'Pornographic' Book

A Gwinnett County parent is trying to get a book she thinks is inappropriate for teenagers taken off school shelves. The book, "Night Talk" by Elizabeth Cox, is about a friendship between a black and a white girl during the civil rights movement. But parent Laura Booth says the book contains graphic sex scenes and "reads like pornography." A committee at South Gwinnett High School denied Booth's request in November, saying the book's instructional value outweighs her concerns.

(Associated Press)

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