With one word, children’s book sets off uproar

It's a word that does not often appear in polite conversation. Or children’s literature, for that matter. Yet there it is on the first page of “The Higher Power of Lucky,” by Susan Patron, this year’s winner of the Newbery Medal, the most prestigious award in children’s literature. Find out just what that word is, and how it has reopened the debate over what constitutes acceptable content in children’s books, in this article from The New York Times.