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The bookseller nailed it.
"They'll let their 10-year-olds read The Hunger Games ," she said Saturday. "But not this."
This being In Our Mothers' House , a beautifully written and illustrated story about a big brown house on Woolsey Street where Meema and Marmee raise their three children.
Meema and Marmee are women; their children were adopted. Meema's Italian grandparents are frequent visitors and the family lives in an integrated neighborhood where communal tree houses are built and street fairs organized.
This book, though, has been pulled from the library shelves of a Davis County elementary school after a few parents complained. A school district panel deemed it out of alignment with curriculum standards and ordered it put "behind the counter."
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