K.L. Going/Fat Kid Rules the World...

There's a very provocative discussion happening on author K.L. Going's blog regarding some recent controversy about the inclusion of profanity and mature content in her Printz Honor-winning book, the wonderful novel Fat Kid Rules the World, which was a choice on a school's summer reading list. As I said to her in an e-mail earlier today, reading the posts made me alternately feel angry, indignant, fired up and choked up. Weighing in on the discussion are readers, teachers, parents, people from family groups who want to make libraries "safe," and authors such as John Green and David Lubar as well as Going herself.