<p><a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/photos/feb2007/picture7462.aspx" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.babble.com/CS/photos/feb2007/images/7462/190x272.aspx" title="Power of Lucky" alt="Power of Lucky" align="right" border="0" height="175" hspace="4" width="150"></a>No publicity is bad publicity. When Susan Patron won the Newberry
Medal for her book "The Higher Power of Lucky" I didn't hear a thing.
When her book got banned from school libraries, I <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/books/18newb.html?ex=1329541200&amp;en=5365dd9eb4bea7b3&amp;ei=5124&amp;partner=permalink&amp;exprod=permalink" target="_blank">read about it in The New York Times</a>. Of course now I want to buy it for my kids.</p><p>Why
did it get banned? On the first page the kid sees his dog get bitten by
a rattlesnake - on the scrotum. I guess school libraries don't like
biology words. The word 'amniocentesis' really freaks me out<b>.</b> I wonder if I can get that banned too?</p>
