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If they feel like this book is a little too graphic, I’m all for it.” I’m going to trust that my school board made the right choice.

The Tennessean quotes one Sumner parent as saying: “Kids at this age are impressionable. , a conservative blog site which promotes censorship, has accused the American Library Association and John Green of being “porn pushers” and attempting to corrupt the young. Pudge falls impossibly in love, but when tragedy strikes the group, it is only by coming face-to-face with death that Pudge discovers the value of living and loving unconditionally. Their core is the razor-sharp, sexy, and self-destructive Alaska, who has perfected the arts of pranking and evading authority. Pudge’s new friends have lives that are anything but safe and boring. Set at a boarding school in Alabama and divided into two parts, ‘Before’ and ‘After’, it chronicles the story of Miles \”Pudge\” Halter, is fascinated by the last words of famous people, and seeks what a dying Rabelais called the “Great Perhaps.” Printz Award from the American Library Association, as well as being named in 2005 a LA Times Book Prize Finalist, NY Public Library Book for Teen title, Booklist Editor’s Choice, and School Library Journal Best Book of the year. The book, published in March, 2005, won the 2006 Michael L. The book had already been banned as pornography in Knox County in March, 2012 after a parent protested that the book went against what she was trying to teach her child. Seizing the opportunity implied by the new law, officials in Sumner County last week banned John Green’s Young Adult novel “ Looking for Alaska” from the school curriculum because it contains an oral sex scene- one of two mildly-erotic passages in the novel. The Tennessee legislature recently passed a bill stating that teachers cannot encourage “gateway sexual activity,” as part of the state\’s abstinence-based sexual education movement.