Edmonton’s public school board is yanking more than 200 books from its library shelves this year — including literary classics such as author Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” — to comply with provincial directive on banning books containing inappropriate sexual content.

The lists of the books to be removed was leaked and widely shared online Thursday, and the school division verified the list Friday morning.

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Public School Board chair Julie Kusiek said anyone unhappy with the move should contact Alberta Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides.

“Division staff worked over the summer to ensure that only books that directly met the criteria in the ministerial order were added to the division’s removal list,” Kusiek said in a statement.

The result, she said, is “s

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