I knew in less than three minutes that this wasn’t a book I wanted on the list,” stated Brittingham.īoard member Sandi Minard said that the language, including frequent use of the ‘F-word,’ featured in the book was the sole reason she voted to remove the book from the list. Cape Henlopen school board President, Spencer Brittingham, said that after some research he decided that the book was not appropriate for the targeted age group, “It’s for a more mature level of student. The board voted 6-1 in favour of removing the book during a June meeting. The book was challenged after parents examined the reading list and brought their concerns to the school board. The book was on the ‘Blue Hen List’, a collection of 10 books that have been deemed age-appropriate by librarians from across the state, and given to middle school students entering high school in the fall and taking college prep and honors classes. In 2014, Delaware’s Cape Henlopen school board removed The Miseducation of Cameron Price from the district’s summer reading list, citing inappropriate language as the reasoning. After her parents pass away, Cameron is sent to live with her very conservative grandmother who soon learns of Cameron’s romantic attachment to her best friend, and the grandmother sends her granddaughter to a gay ‘conversion camp’.Īccording to the author, The Miseducation of Cameron Post was influenced by the 2005 ‘Zach Stark controversy’, in which a teenager called Zach Stark was sent to a conversion camp, run by ‘Love in Action’, after coming out to his parents.
The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily Danforth (Amazon UK / Hive Books/ Abe Books)ĭanforth’s 2012 novel is a coming-of-age teen fiction about 12-year-old Cameron is who discovering her own sexuality.
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