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As of January 14, elementary- school students in the Davis (Utah) School District are once again free to borrow the Patricia Polacco picture book In Our Mothers' House, which district officials had ordered in May 2012 to be placed behind the circulation counter and made available only to youngsters who presented written parental permission for them to read it. The district's change of heart toward the picture book- a multigenerational tale about the family life of a lesbian couple with three children, told in the voice of the oldest child- is a saga unto itself.
It all began in January 2012 , when an unidentified parent of a Windridge Elementary School student filed a materials reconsideration request after her kindergartner brought the book home. The complainant objected to the book on the grounds that it "normalizes a lifestyle we don't agree with." After the Windridge School Library Media Committee voted...