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Sep 21, 2010 18:56

Speaking Up for SPEAK by Laurie Halse Anderson

Most of you, I'm sure, are already aware of the recent fracas over Dr. Wesley Scroggins equating Laurie Halse Anderson's SPEAK with pornography.I've been trying to compose a coherent post about this for days now, but it still makes me so angry that my mind blanks out when I try to type anything. It is ( Read more... )

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barbarabaker September 22 2010, 14:00:19 UTC
SPEAK is a wonderful book. Scroggins and people like him are dangerous. What more can I add that hasn't been said.
Thanks for the list of quotes.
I got a computer virus (trojan) last week from an email I opened from a friend (I thought). I don't know how someone got into my email to send this through my friend (she didn't even know about it). I opened an attachment in the email, even though there was no message. I'll never do that again. It cost me a small fortune to have a tech guy fix it.

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saraholutola September 29 2010, 16:41:17 UTC
This is an awesome book and I so don't get why someone would want to BAN it. Geez...

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