Wait, We Still Have to Have This List?

The ALA put out their annual most frequently challenged books list. To nobody's surprise, it still has penguins, daemons, and scary stories to tell in the dark. Let's hear it for consistency, people.

My eye was caught by #9:

The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
Reasons: offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group

To echo a co-worker: "Do they know it was written for adults?"

And yes, okay, it was probably from angry parents of high-schoolers reading it for class, but the disconnect still makes me laugh. And then weep.