[aisle] Court of Throne and Roses series

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I would agree with the others.  The farther you go in the series the more explicit the scenes become.  Book 1 seemed ok, but the rest I would put in high school.  I think that as an adult reading the last, A Court of Silver Flames, I am sure I got red more than once.
Peggy Burton


 

    On Wednesday, March 16, 2022, 06:51:44 PM CDT, Laura Winter via AISLE <aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:  
 
 Hi Megan,
I'm at a middle school and I have the first book in the series, but I weeded the rest of the series due to the mature content. I had two teachers tell me that the series was not middle school appropriate and the sex scenes were explicit. I kept the first book even though the reviews in Titlewave state grades 9+. Apparently, the first book is more PG than XXX;) If students want to continue the series I will put a hold on the HS copies if they really want it, or I tell them to go to the public library.  
Good luck!



Laura WinterTeacher LibrarianBarrington Middle School - Prairie Campuslwinter at barrington220.org




On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 5:12 PM Flaherty, Megan via AISLE <aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

Hi fellow librarians!
Something happened today that I would like to get your opinion on. I work at a middle school and an 8th grade student was reading A Court of Frost and Starlight, the 4th book in the Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J. Maas on her Chromebook on a reading site not connected to our school. A passage got flagged by our content monitoring program and she was called to talk to the social worker. The passage was a little bit explicit and we do not have the 4th book in our library. However, we do have the first three books in the series in our library. After hearing this, our principal (new this year) came to our library and told our assistant (I was out sick) to remove the first three books from the shelf. She did a great job and said that we can’t just remove books from the shelf, that there is a process to go through. They decided to put the books aside until I come back tomorrow. I am upset that he so easily moved to take the books of the shelf, but now I want to make sure that they are “appropriate” for middle school. This is an area that I struggle with because families vary so much in the type of content they allow their children to be exposed to. I tend to fall on the more liberal side with giving the choice to families and assuming that students have many other venues to access this type of content from. I have also not read the books which I am going to do now.


Any thoughts on the specific book series and how you go about choosing middle school books that contain some sexual content or references?

Thank you for taking the time to read this!!
Megan Flaherty
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