LAFAYETTE - Pen and paper weren't enough for 11-year-old Elizabeth Johnson to do her book report.
She needed a lawyer.
Sixth-grade teachers at Peak to Peak Charter School initially rejected Elizabeth's choice of the biblical Book of Exodus for her report.
The Boulder Valley School District changed its stance after an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund, which specializes in religious-freedom issues, threatened to bring a civil rights suit.
Elizabeth, a born-again member of First Baptist Church in Broomfield, said she wasn't trying to push her religion on the other students. She just likes the drama of Exodus.
"I just wanted to do how he (Moses) rescued the slaves, and how he was born," she said Thursday.