The Baltimore Banner

Somerset County’s school board is considering barring students under the age of 18 from reading any young-adult literature in school libraries — essentially restricting all but 12th graders from checking out books written for teens and tweens.

Classics like "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Little Women" as well as the Harry Potter series, might be off limits to most students under the proposed policy.

Somerset's school board wants an 18-and-over rule for young-adult books Classics like ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ and ‘Little Women’ might be off limits to most students under the proposed policy.

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