Vonnegut Out

Charles Oliver | 8.4.2011 6:00 AM

Officials at Missouri's Republic High School have banned Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five and Sarah Ocker's Twenty Boy Summer after one resident complained the books advocate ideas contrary to the Bible.

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