A 10-year-old girl and her mother were browsing in a library's children's section. The little girl began to read "It's Perfectly Normal," a sex-education book written by Robie H. Harris and published by Candlewick Press. After reading the chapter on child abuse, the girl looked at her mother, pointed to the book and said: "That's me." The girl's abuser, her father, is now serving a 60-year prison term.

At Noblesville High School, student journalists were discouraged. They had tried for weeks to get a story about teen drug abuse published in the school newspaper without success. Administrators didn't like the story, but students couldn't understand why. At Columbus North High School, it was a different story. The newspaper staff, with the approval of the principal, was able to publish a sensitive, well-researched story about the realities of oral sex among teens.