HALSEY — One way or another, a Halsey woman promises to keep a popular cartoon book out of the Central Linn High School library.

Taffey Anderson says “The Book of Bunny Suicides” is not appropriate for anyone, but especially children. She inspected the book her 13-year-old son checked out of the library, and what she saw convinced her to never return it.

The 2003 book by British author Andy Riley is a collection of cartoons showing a rabbit attempting to end his life in bizarre ways. Anderson’s son told her he checked it out because his friends said it was funny.

“It is a comic book, but that’s not funny. Not at all,” Anderson told the Albany Democrat-Herald newspaper. “I don’t care if your kid is 16, 17, 18. It’s wrong.”

Anderson contacted Principal Julie Knoedler, who told her about the district’s book-challenge policy.

Anderson plans to fill out the forms, but she’s not taking any chances. Once the review is over, regardless of the outcome, she plans to burn it.

“They’re not getting this book back,” she said, adding that if the library replaces it: “I’ll have somebody else check it out and I’ll keep that one. I’m just disgusted by the whole ordeal.”

Knoedler said Anderson must bring the book back for the committee to review it. If she refuses, the committee will have to buy another, at $13, and charge it to the family.

If Anderson doesn’t pay, her son will be banned from taking out any more books.

Jean Townes, library consultant for the school district, said library books are ordered in batches, usually based on recommendations from established academic sites.

The book was on a young-adult reader list recommended by the American Library Association, she said, and she knows other school libraries in Oregon have purchased it.

The book, however, has been turned away by some school libraries.