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They some times ban the books for retarded reasons too. In Fallen Angels the boys in vietnam curse (realistically) and harp on one guy calling him a fag. That's the most frequent causes of it's censorship. a parent will pick up the book and say "this book says shit in it!!!" then they call the school board. never mind that there's a scene in it where the boys stab a vietcong kid their age to death and pull him into a fox hole where they hide till night fall, hugging a bloody corpse...it's definitely the cursing that gets it banned. The problem is that they don't actually read what their kids read. They hear from the thomases who heard from the smiths that the word shit was in that one book that radical teacher had assigned.