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On Sunday, November 6, 2005, Zellner was at school working and used his school computer to conduct a Google Images search. First, he disengaged Google’s “safe search” filter. He then typed the word “blonde” and hit return.

Parents have long raised concerns about school and library books — children's and young adult books, and sometimes dictionaries — often for inappropriate content. The number of reported challenges in the past 30 years has hovered between about 400 or 500 each year, says Deborah Caldwell-Stone, an attorney with the American Library Association.