Parents called the police on a student after she helped to distribute a book banned from the syllabus – but the move backfired.
Brady Kissel, who was giving out copies of Sherman Alexie’s The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian to students at a local bookshop in Idaho, was reported to police.
But not only did the police let the giveaway go ahead as planned, the author’s publisher sent the bookshop an additional 350 copies free of charge, so any student who wanted the book could have one.
The book was removed from Junior Mountain High School’s curriculum three weeks ago after parents cited its sexual and ‘anti-Christian’ content.
Local bookshop Rediscovered Books then launched a campaign, raising $3,400 – enough so that the 350 teens who petitioned for its reinstatement could each have a copy.