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Hey, I'm Melody! I've been giving advice on and off since 2003. I'm a 23 year old military wife, expecting a baby boy in August, and working on my Bachelor's degree. :)
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okay so you know the book crank?
by ellen something or other? it's about like how some girl gets addicted to like crack or something and how she loses herself to it. and how she like gets herself back right?
well they even have it at my school library, and everyone at my school is reading it.
i go to a public school, and my older sister goes to a private lutheran school.
she claims that one of her classmates got like 5 detentions just for having that book at school.
their school is a little different though...
and she does have a history of making things up.
and right before she told my mom this, i wouldn't let her use my shampoo & conditioner. i think this was some type of revenge?
anyways, my mom took it away from me after that and was like "i wonder if i should send you to a religious school before you go over the deep end."
and i'm like WHAT?! because i've never done drugs or even come close to them. i make good grades, and good decisions, and i don't see why she'd even say that.
just because of a few books i read.
and i've read like burned, by that same author and she didn't have a problem with that.
so she took the book away, and won't let me read it.
of course i'm just gonna read it somewhere else, because i should be able to decide what i read.
what do you guys think?
i'm 14/f if that has a difference.
I read a ton of books, and many of them have been very contraversial. I get most of them from my public school library as well.
Crank (It's Ellen Hopkins by the way) was one of the worst I have read. I am a little on edge about whether or not it should have been in the library at all. There is also a sequel called Glass that was equally disturbing. Burned was also messed up, as was Identical. Identical is one of her newer books that has just as much drug use along with promiscuous sex and incest. It was so disturbing that it made me sick to my stomach and made my skin crawl.
Books such as:
-Crank, Burned, Glass, & Identical
-Lovely Bones & Lucky; By Alice Sebold
-Go Ask Alice; Author unknown
are all books that have been banned in many public libraries, and for good reason. It takes a very mature reader to be able to read the books without it effecting them. I read Go Ask Alice as a young girl, and it effected me a lot.
These books literally make me sick, but at the same time I like the fact that I have the freedom and the right to read them at my school. You should respect your mom's wishes. I don't know if I would want my children reading these books, though I would still probably let them. I believe in a cruel way, this has made me feel lucky that I have not fallen victim to these things, and I believe in the end it will keep me from ever falling victim.
Talk to your mom, and tell her how you feel.
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(Rating: 5) thanks, i've actually read burned, and go ask alice.
they don't affect me, so i still don't see why she won't let me.
haha thanks though