The best possible way to end International Banned Books Week

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Cover of A Wizard of Mars with Banned In Texas sticker

One US state leads all others in the number of people it’s executed, far and away surpassing its closest competitors for the title by a ratio of more than 5 to 1. In that state, a school has banned the ninth Young Wizards novel, A Wizard of Mars, for — wait for it — “violence and horror.”

Periodic Table entry for the element Irony

Thanks to the Texas ACLU for the heads-up.

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