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High school students in Hermon will need to get parental permission to check out certain books with adult themes, under new protocols that administrators are planning to launch this fall.

Talty, a citizen of the Penobscot Indian Nation and an assistant professor at the University of Maine, says he was surprised to hear the news, announced last Thursday night in New York.

The organization has raised more than $2,500 so far, enough to purchase more than 100 books.

The Imagination Library sends two books every month to children enrolled in the program from birth through age 5. The program will be administered by the Maine State Library, where Jamie Ritter is the head librarian.

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