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Whale Talk beached for bad words.(Brief Article)
The Limestone County (Ala.) School District rejected the recommendation of the district superintendent March 7 and ordered the removal of the young adult novel Whale Talk from all five high-school libraries in the school system, citing the book's use of profanity. "We can't allow students to go down our halls and say those words, and we shouldn't let them read it," said board member James Shannon. "That book's got a lot of bad, bad words."
Superintendent Barry Carroll had backed the recommendation of a materials review committee, whose written report states that the book's message "is more important than the language used," according to the March 8 Decatur Daily. The novel, …
