Teachers and librarians can prepare for the battle when the books are known ahead of time. One of the reasons why I object so strenuously to censorship is because so much of it is absurd. Censorship attempts call attention to the book under attack. And immediately, kids want to read it. And then it's read for the wrong reasons.
Every parent has the right to control what their children read.
But I object when parents don't want other people's children reading those books. I think that a controversial book belongs in the classroom where it can be discussed, where a teacher can guide the students, where, in fact, a student can get up in class or write a paper saying that he or she doesn't like the book and objects to facets of it. That's the kind of freedom that we must preserve. It's killing language and thought. It's evading real life.