Apple Valley gets a Bone

A group of parents, teachers, and media specialists from the Rosemont-Apple Valley-Eagan school district in suburban Minneapolis voted 10-1 to keep Jeff Smith’s Bone graphic novels in the school libraries. Ramona DeLay, whose son Hardy brought home the fourth book in the Bone series from the school library, objected to references to smoking, drinking, gambling, and to what she perceived as “sexual situations between characters” in the Bone graphic novel.