By a 6-0 vote, a southwest Missouri school board has restored two books--Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five and Sarah Ockler's Twenty Boy Summer--that it had previously banned from public schools for being contrary to teachings in the Bible (Shelf Awareness, August 9, 2011), Reuters reported.
The novels will be "available to students for independent reading as long as they are kept in a secure section of the school library. Only parents or guardians can check them out." Under the policy adopted by the board in July, "teachers still cannot make the books required reading nor read them aloud in school. The old policy had removed the books from the school altogether," Reuters wrote.
