![]() It’s aimed at middle-schoolers and above. Lowry, 67, a Massachusetts grandmother of four, admits a couple of “bad words” have raised questions in the Anastasia series through the years but said it’s her book The Giver that normally churns up conservative parents. “Why are kids so vulgar? The sexual urges they have? They are reading it in the library.” “If kids are going to be worldly, that’s a parent’s choice,” said Hardee, whose father-in-law is a Southern Baptist minister in Lake Wales. It’s also on the National Education Association’s state-by-state reading list for kids, along with two other of Lowry’s books. ![]() Not all the books are in the school library, but the first, Anastasia Krupnik, is. The work centers around the life of a girl who grows from 10 to 12 years old. Lowry’s Anastasia series of books includes nine volumes and is aimed at kids ages 9 to 12. If can’t say it, she shouldn’t be reading it.” “It’s appalling, some of the things in this book,” said Hardee, 32, mother of a fourth-grader and part-time church secretary. ![]() She brought the issue to the School Board this week and has filed a formal complaint. ![]() 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. BARTOW - A Polk County mother thinks the word damn has no place in a 10-year-old’s school library book. ![]()
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