Alberta Premier Danielle Smith slammed the Edmonton Public School Board Friday morning for its banned book list, which features more than 200 titles.

The internally distributed list, which CBC News obtained Thursday, was in response to a provincial government directive to identify books that are not age-appropriate and remove them from school library shelves.

But the list included titles like Books from authors like George R. R. Martin, Sarah J. Maas and Maya Angelou are also on the list.

"Edmonton Public is clearly doing a little vicious compliance over what the direction is," Smith said during an unrelated news conference.

The point of this work is to keep graphic, sexually explicit content out of elementary schools, she said.

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