WYANDOTTE, Mich. -- Some parents in a metro Detroit community have raised concerns over a book they said is too sexually explicit for their students.

The book in question is called "The Bookseller of Kabul," a nonfiction account of what life is like inside an Afghan household.

The book is an assigned reading for an 11th grade honors English class at Roosevelt High School in Wyandotte.

"I came upon these two passages and I was just kind of shocked that they were in there and we were allowed to read," said junior Jamie Sarna.

"The passages in particular were too sexually graphic for kids," said Sarna's father, Anthony. "It shouldn't have been assigned to them."

At a recent school board meeting, the family raised their objection to the book, while others defended the book.

"They need to know how the rest of the world lives, and many of our young people don't know and don't care." said former teacher Mary Louise Bahnemann. "This is more disturbing to me than the disturbing passages in the book."

The book has since been removed from the school's library and classrooms.

The school said it's looking to update its current media selection process by creating a reconsideration committee to handle challenges to assigned readings.

If the plan is approved by the board at a Tuesday meeting, the book will be reviewed again.

"If this book was an 'R' rated movie and I wanted to go see it, I'm 16 years old and I would not be able to get in without a license or without a parent," said Sarna.

The school said the book went through several reviews and was approved for high school students before being placed on the assigned reading list for the class.

The teacher of the class in which the book is assigned said students must apply for the honors class and are accepted in early May. He also said every student had access to a blog where he put the list of all the books that were going to be assigned.