Imagine living in a world of delusion with nothing to set you apart from any other person. Where weather does not change and colors do not exist. Where feeling get masked and differences in views were punished. This is a world in which a twelve-year old boy, Jonah, lived in and soon changed for himself.

This book was banned from many elementary schools because many parents felt that this book was " ...putting thoughts into a young child's life that he/she are simply not ready to deal with at eleven or twelve years of ageaE?. This was a specific complaint of one of the parents who felt that this book was too strong for young readers.

Another argument presented by a number of parents in 1995, was that the book discussed "infanticide and sexual awakening.aE? Yet, another co

I think strongly that this book should be read to any child who wants to read it and I believe that many children would get something out of it. The reading group, which I think will understand it the most, is fourth graders to adults because adults have gone through sexual awakening and adolescents are just hitting this stage. Another wonderful thing about this book is that it shows or tries to make people see what would happen if everyone was like everyone else, and if everything was perfect then many privileges would be taken away.

Over all this book was amazing and should not be taken away from any school or any library.

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