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Summary Of Looking For Alaska By John Green

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The book I am dedicated to researching and presenting is Looking for Alaska by John Green. This is an appropriate grade level book with a lexile score of 930. As I began to briefly research this text and its components, I was intrigued to find that it was challenged by multiple locations throughout America. This includes the school boards of Knox and Sumner Counties in Tennessee and Depew in New York (Browning). This book was banned due to its explicit content such as smoking cigarettes, using profanity, consuming alcohol and consistently breaking rules. Parents and administers of these schools believed that the book would exhibit a negative impact on the reader by increasing the risky behavior that is displayed. Moreover, in Tennessee the

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