There's an uproar in children's bookland, all because of a scrotum that appears on page 1 of The Higher Power Of Lucky by Susan Patron. It's only a dog's scrotum, mentioned when the title character overhears one child telling another that a rattlesnake bit his dog on the scrotum. And even though the book won the prestigious Newbery Medal this year, school libraries across the land are banning the book for fear a child might encounter the dreaded word. I think it makes sense that school administrators with no balls would ban a book that talks about a scrotum -- how can you explain to a curious child what a scrotum is when you don't know what one is yourself?
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