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How the Garcia Girls Got Banned in North Carolina
12:19 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Books|Controversia|Education|literature|North Carolina · 2 Comments
16 Jan 2008
Sadly, banned books are not exclusive to third world countries run by alleged dictators. Banned books happen right here in the USA. One of the latest is a book by Dominican author Julia Alvarez : How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents.
A mother with a daughter in a Johnston County high school cites Julia Alvarez’s novel about four sisters who must adjust to life in the U.S. after fleeing the Dominican Republic as inappropriate for the high school age group.
Profanity in the book and graphic content were cited as the reasons.
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