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Bookworm: TextWord is astonishingly good, and they have a really great selection of short works and poetry in their high school literature textbook- I used it in eighth grade and literally read it for pleasure. I was actually really impressed.

I don’t know if they censor novels, though. (The only time my high school tried to seriously censor a book, it was an utter fiasco. We still all laugh about it- it’s a lot easier to just decide what you’re trying to achieve and what your values are and pick books accordingly.)

gefen: My classmate had this exact problem when she was performing that monologue in front of the school- I think she just said “darn” or something and while it’s obviously not THAT different, I guess there is a cathartic value to saying the real thing?….