![]() ![]() Wayne Rice said the book was on a suggested home-reading list provided by his eighth-grade son’s teacher, but was not required reading. The Bethel School Board voted two weeks ago to ban the book from the Cascade Middle School library after a parent complained. ″If it were a public library keeping adults from reading it, then I would really kick up a stink.″ ″I write books primarily for adults, not for children, so when it comes to a middle school, I’m not going to make an issue of it,″ she said Sunday. Jean Auel, author of the 1980 best seller, said teen-agers can make up their own minds. (AP) _ The ″Clan of the Cave Bear,″ a richly detailed look at prehistoric times, has been banned from a middle-school library after a parent objected to a rape scene. ![]()
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