NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A second Tennessee school system has banned a teen novel called "Looking for Alaska" over a two-page sex scene.
The Tennessean reported that the coming-of-age novel is the first to be stripped from the classroom reading list in Sumner County in several years.
Knox County schools made a similar decision in March to keep students from reading the novel together in class.
Station Camp High School English teacher Brittany Pratt told the paper that the book has some foul language, but that the sex scene is fairly minor and nothing students haven't heard before.
The book written by John Green won a 2006 Printz award for excellence in young adult literature.
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