Outrage over the Newbery Medal-winning children's book "The Higher Power of Lucky" by Susan Patron as the word "scrotum" appears on the first page. Unacceptable. I remember some book I had to read in middle school where a young female character described being in a dark grotto with the crazy guy in her grade (this was maybe in pre-WWII Germany?) and "a stick or something" was sticking out of his pants. Clearly this scarred me forever, as to this day I can only refer to that part of the anatomy as "a stick or something". I think this girl may have escaped Germany to Norway on a boat, where odd German kids didn't whip it out in grottoes, so I guess everything turned out well for her.
If nothing else, I don't think young kids should know about this particular body part so long as they're at the ideal height to punch me there when I cut in front of them at the arcade, as I am wont to do. I digress. Read the entire story here.
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I'm disappointed, to be perfectly honest. I read the Times article, and they're just talking about scrotums. I really was hoping it was offensive on some level. Like all that appeared on the first page of the book was "Scrotum," in giant, 152-point type, and didn't havea anything to do with the rest of the book. That would've been great.
Also, you read freaky books in middle school.
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