Pervasively vulgar. these descriptions of sex are included within the story and they have a purpose in terms of telling a story, and in some instances providing educational value. and so it s a little bit hard to parse how they re defining pervasive. that book that you have in your hand, how what s the target audience for the readers? reporter: teenagers. teenagers, young adults. the author, who i spoke with, wrote the book for the purpose of giving kids access to a story that he didn t have access to when he was growing up, black and queer and all that comes along with that. so you mentioned you reached out to officials, they don t reply to you, but you have been very engaged with the community in person, you ve done so as well on social media. what are you hearing from parents on both sides of this? reporter: sure, the parents who have asked to have these books removed told me that this isn t about targeting lgbtq storylines, although the majority of the books do affect