The school board in Tennessee, in the southern part of the USA, has banned the teaching of the Holocaust through the Pulitzer Prize-winning comic book.
The reasoning is that the novel is full of profanity, nudity and has depictions of suicides and is not suitable for the age of students in schools.
Graphic novel Maus: A survivor's story shows how the author's parents - Polish Jews - survived the infamous Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz during the Second World War.
Author Art Spiegelman said he was "confused" by the school administration's decision.
Six million Jews were killed or died in the Holocaust - Nazi Germany's campaign to exterminate the Jews of Europe.
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Spiegelman's novel Maus, with hand-drawn illustrations of Jews as mice and Nazis as cats, won a number of literary awards in 1992.
At a McMinn County school board meeting in January, members said they felt the profanity in the graphic novel was inappropriate for the eighth-grade curriculum.
They also objected to depictions of explicit violence and suicide, saying that these are not the "values" of the local community.
Members also said that the drawings were inappropriate because they depicted "nudity".
After the reaction on social media, board members stated in a statement that "the unnecessary use of profanity and nudity and depictions of violence and suicide" were too much for a class of thirteen and fourteen-year-olds.
The board said its members "do not diminish the value of Maus as a striking and meaningful piece of literature, nor do we dispute the importance of teaching our children the historical and moral lessons and realities of the Holocaust."
They said teachers were instructed to teach children about the Holocaust, but in a "more age-appropriate way".
"We all have an obligation to let the younger generations know about the horrors of the Holocaust in order to make sure that such an event never happens again."
"We simply do not believe this work is appropriate for teaching our students about the Holocaust," they added.
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In an interview with CNBC, the novel's author, Spiegelman, said he was "confused" by the decision and called it "Orwellian."
"I met a lot of young people who learned something from my book," he says.
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