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Someone asked about new information involving Duncan's book Who Killed My
Daughter? which was published in 1992. Since then a paperback version has
been published with an afterword giving a few updates. The killer still
has not been found even though some new information has come forward.
Apparently it was featured on a January 1993 segment of Unsolved
Mysteries. According to the afterword there is still difficulty getting
the police to believe in the Vietnamese mafia connection.
On another note: thanks to those who responded to me in regard to the
challenge to Robert Newton Peck's SOUP. I attended the reconsideration
committee meeting (along with the school librarian, principal, another
teacher, and a representative parent). The parent (the one who filed the
challenge) objected to numerous lines and ideas
in the book (four pages worth of written objections). The basic complaint
was that the book encouraged kids to be bad - play pranks, smoke
cornsilks, tie people up, etc., and offered no redeeming values. Needless
to say I disagreed.
You'll be pleased to know that the committee voted unanimously to
keep the book - it is used as a reading set in a 4th grade. The parent
now has the right to appeal this decision in which case it will go to the
school board. The principal seems to think she'll push it as far as she
can - seems her child takes everything literally and tries everthing he
reads!
The e-mail messages in support of the book were wonderful. I took
copies and the school librarian asked to keep them in her files.
Validations from professionals can't be beat. Many thanks.
Bette Ammon
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Missoula Public Library thing about Missoula Community Access TV
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