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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou's landmark autobiography recounts her childhood in the segregated South, from her early years in Stamps, Arkansas, to her teenage years in San Francisco. Angelou writes with unflinching honesty about racism, sexual abuse, and her eventual triumph over trauma through literature and resilience.
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Why this book is challenged
- •sexually explicit content
- •depictions of sexual abuse
- •profanity
- •racial themes
Challenge History
Mukilteo School District Libraries
Mukilteo, Washington
Depictions of sexual abuse and racial content
August 29, 2022school district
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