"I just don't want fear. I don't want teachers to be afraid of
presenting challenging material."--Terry Lucas, owner of the Open Book,
Westhampton Beach, N.Y., in Newsday after the local school board voted to remove two books--Jodi Picoult's The Tenth Circle and James Patterson's Cradle and All--from
the reading list for ninth graders and review the rest of the list, a
move Lucas has opposed since the books were first questioned several
weeks ago (Shelf Awareness, November 23, 2007).