The 1982 collection, called “Different Seasons,” features the following four novellas:

“Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: Hope Springs Eternal” “Apt Pupil: Summer of Corruption” “The Body: Fall from Innocence” “The Breathing Method: A Winter’s Tale”

Saves you a click. Also they didn’t ban IT, in which an 11 year old girl pulls a train. Or The Vision by Dean Koontz in which a 9 year old boy SA’s his 6 year old sister with a bat — the kind with wings, that is.

In other words, they really aren’t talking about shit. Or they don’t know shit.

IMO King and Koontz books don’t belong in school libraries. You should be able to buy them, though.

is it not super dodgy for a state to decide what can & can't be read in schools, rather than the school's librarian..?

there are some books on that list that i don't think are suitable for under 18s, but surely at the state level, there are bigger things to worry about than kids reading age-inappropriate books

Some of Steven Kings's books have hard X rated elements. There are pages of graphic violent sexual acts that aren't necessary to the story but written because King admitted he was blacked out on cocaine at the time. Those don't belong in schools.

Stephen writes for the lowest common denominator.