Lipsyte Novel Yanked from Library Shelves

Debra Lau Whelan -- School Library Journal, 8/31/2004

Middle school students in Ansonia, CT, may have trouble finding copies of One Fat Summer (Harper & Row, 1977) by Robert Lipsyte. The coming-of-age novel was pulled from the local schools’ display at the Ansonia Public Library, following a parental complaint about the book’s content.

Parents objected to a paragraph describing the masturbation fantasy of a teenage boy. School officials asked the library to remove the book from its special display of titles for middle school students. The book will remain in circulation on the public library’s regular shelves.