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Has this ever been considered a banned book and why if it has?
K "This book about a girl in sixth grade struggling with questions of religion and her experience going through puberty has been banned and challenged i…more"This book about a girl in sixth grade struggling with questions of religion and her experience going through puberty has been banned and challenged in numerous school districts because the book is supposedly sexually offensive and amoral. Others have targeted it as anti-Christian or immoral. Others fear that children will try to replicate the acts and runaway as well." - google(less)
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
by E.L. Konigsburg
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