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Thank you all so much for your responses! I have started reading the first one and if it seems ok, I might keep it in our YA section, remove #2 and #3, and advise students to get the rest from public libraries.
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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. </div>
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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
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