What you don’t hear about what you read…
Lauren Myracle wrote a book about 5th graders. She included some characters that some would consider to be controversal. Scholastics publishers (whom I have greatly respected in the past) intially planned to pull the book because of these characters and some slang. Here are the links with details: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/28/scholastic-book-lgbt/ [...]
Filed under: art, life, politics, purpose, relating well, relationships, wonder, writing on October 28th, 2009 | 1 Comment »