When my kids were in the Texas public school system one of my main frustrations were that they weren’t allowed to bring textbooks home.
I wanted to teach them good study habits, but we could never get our hands on a book. If my kids needed to study, they had to come in at lunch or stay after school. The books were never allowed to leave the classroom.
I had NEVER heard of this in my life until they started high school in Texas. (We homeschooled grades k-8 and my son finished up his senior year with homeschool.)
Title and author is all you needed. You can ask a librarian to get it for you. I used to do that when I was a child of 10, and that was a long, long time ago. Nowadays you have internet, amazon, b&n, ebay...there are no excuses for these parents who put their kids in public schools in the first place, because they wouldn't do so if they gave a full damn.