In 2012 Bone was relocated from a Texas elementary school to a junior high school in the same district because of another “unsuited for age group” complaint. In 2011 an anonymous submitter from a New Mexico school district told OIF that “a parent from an elementary school complained to a board member about book #4, The Dragonslayer, and the board member told administration about it.” The entire series was subsequently removed from all classrooms and libraries in the district with no oversight or review process. A letter from Smith decrying the ban attempt was read aloud at the review committee’s hearing, and the challenge was ultimately rejected by a 10-1 vote, to the praise of Smith and CBLDF. Ramona DeLay’s son had just graduated the local DARE anti-drug program when she discovered images she believed to be promoting drinking and smoking in the comic her son was reading. In 2010, a Minnesota parent petitioned for the series’ removal from her son’s school library. (Some cases that were reported directly to OIF by librarians or teachers have incomplete information in order to maintain the submitters’ anonymity.) In 2009 some or all of the series was apparently removed from an unidentified New Jersey school library in response to a parent’s complaint that it was unsuited to the students’ age group. Smith’s epic follows Fone Bone and his two cousins, Smiley and Phoney, as they meet the valley’s denizens, become embroiled in their society, and discover their own heroism in confrontation with the rat creatures and their mystical master, the Lord of Locusts.Īccording to ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, the Bone series has faced several challenges and at least one ban over the years. In The Valley, the Bones find themselves surrounded by talking bugs, vicious rat-like monsters, magic, and the occasional dragon. Bone tells of three creatures known as the Bones, who are outcast from their home village of Boneville and lost in a human land called The Valley.
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