A Texas school district reportedly says it won't remove a biography about Michelle Obama following a complaint from a parent who said they felt the book about unfairly portrays former President Donald Trump as a bully.
by Heather E. Schwartz — is among at least 86 that Texas parents have recently attempted to have banned, according toNBC News reports that 86 formal requests were filed to remove books from school libraries last year. The list of books includes the Obama biography, which the parent also said makes it seem that "if you sound like a white girl you should be ashamed of yourself."Tenn.
In a statement provided to PEOPLE, Schwartz said she was "shocked that anyone would want to ban" her book, which was written for children. "This is a nonfiction book that doesn't strike me as at all controversial," the author said, in part. "I take great pains in my work to present fact-based information and avoid any political slant."
Schwartz continued in her statement: "As an author, a reader, and a parent, I'm against book banning on principle. There couldn't be a safer way for kids to learn about difficult topics, gain new perspectives, and explore the world and their place in it than by reading words on a page."on the ban request, the Katy school district reviewed the book as is standard for any formal complaint and determined it would not be removed.
In Tennessee, the McMinn County Board of Education recently voted to remove Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel, an animated retelling of the author's father's experience in the Holocaust. The book was banned from an eighth-grade lesson plan about the Holocaust because it included nudity and curse words.
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