The school district superintendent in Huntington Beach, California, said an autobiography by poet Maya Angelou may be banned from local middle school libraries.
Superintendent Alan Rasmussen said he will announce next week his decision regarding the possible book ban involving the libraries at Vista View and Spring View middle schools, The Orange County Register said Saturday.
The proposed ban on Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings autobiography comes from former Westminster School District Trustee Judy Ahrens and Ocean View School District trustee John Brisco.
The book features a description of a rape of an 8-year-old girl, a scene Ahrens used as evidence for a ban at an October 6 trustee meeting.
The Register said, according to the American Library Association, I Know Why the Caged Bird Singswas the third most challenged book in schools in the 1990s.
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