Hundreds of Meridian, Idaho, high school students signed a protest petition when their local school board banned Sherman Alexie’s young adult novel “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian’ from their 10th-grade curriculum. But a private fund-raising drive, organized by two Washington women, has now raised enough money to buy a copy of the novel for every one of the 350 students who protested the curriculum ban.
Idaho Students To Get Copies Of Sherman Alexie Novel Banned From Curriculum
Joel Connelly, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Wed, 04/16/2014 - 1:55pm
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