Patricia McCormack, the author of 'Sold,' responded to parents' opposition to her book being placed in public school libraries, citing sexually explicit passages.
The"Sold" author criticized a Virginia parent who protested against the book, and said there was"no graphic language."
"The scene [the mother] chose to read, informed in part by my own experiences of sexual abuse, describes the sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl by an older man. There is no graphic language or obscenity in the passage; the story is told from the point of view of a child — in the words of a child — and conveys her confusion, terror and physical pain," the author wrote.
She further argued that"To ban this book is also disrespectful to the teenagers who want, and in some cases need, to read it"
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