by Shannon Maughan, Children's Bookshelf | 02/22/2007 @ 07:00AM
Our story last week about the controversy surrounding author Susan Patron's use of the word "scrotum" in her Newbery-winning novel The Higher Power of Lucky seems to have ignited a firestorm.
What's in a word? Plenty of controversy, if it happens to be a word naming a part of the male anatomy, and if it appears in a Newbery Award-winning novel.
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