[CALIBK12] Anne Rice

[Shannon Ng]

I'm a fan of Anne Rice and recommend them only to mature readers.  An
intermediate school is probably not appropriate for them.  She chooses
themes that are frequently too complicated for younger readers and often
uses mature subject matter to get her point across.  Much of it involves
religion and sex.

Shannon Houlihan Ng
Park View Middle School
Yucaipa, CA
Shannon_ng at ycjusd.k12.ca.us


-----Original Message-----
From: jill detweiler [mailto:jdetweiler at windrush.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 1:11 PM
To: Amber Claflin; calibk12 at listproc.sjsu.edu
Subject: Re: [CALIBK12] Anne Rice

OK, I will confess to some familiarity...

I am not sure exactly what ages intermediate schools serve but I would keep
those books for high school only, definitely not middle school. 

I work in a K-8, and now I am wondering what sort of limits, if any, high
schools might follow as far as collection development along these lines.
Thanks, Jill


Amber Claflin <Amber_Claflin at etiwanda.k12.ca.us> wrote:

	One of our intermediate schools recently received a donation of
quite a few books by Anne Rice.  The books are in very nice condition for
the most part. Titles includes Blood & Gold, Violin and others.  I am not
familiar with her works but plan to read a number of them this weekend.  The
review sources I checked list them as adult and my hit and miss reading of a
few pages lead me to think we should send them to the friends of the public
library.
	 
	If any of you are familiar with Anne Rice's books, I would
appreciate your thoughts.
	 
	Thank you, Amber
	 
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