MIAMI -- A series of children's books banned from Miami-Dade County public schools will remain in schools for now. That's the ruling of a federal judge.

Schools must keep the 24-book collection at least until arguments stemming from a legal challenge to the ban can be heard next month.

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit last week to stop the school board from removing the Spanish-language travel book "Vamos A Cuba," translated in English as "A Visit to Cuba," from its shelves.

The board voted June 14 to take not only "Vamos A Cuba" off the shelves, but to also remove all the other books in the children's travel series.

U.S. District Judge Alan Gold told the school board to keep the books, saying he wanted to "hold the status quo" until a July 21 hearing.

"Vamos A Cuba" was pulled from Marjory Stoneman Douglas Elementary School when a parent who emigrated from Cuba said the book doesn't accurately represent life in the country.

"He finds it very offensive, given his experiences living in Cuba, and so he's asked us to reconsider having it on the shelves in one of our elementary schools," said Joe Garcia, spokesman for Miami-Dade County Public Schools.

The book is geared toward second- and third-grade readers, and details the events and institutions in Cuba born under Fidel Castro's regime.

The book contains images of smiling children wearing uniforms of Cuba's communist youth group and a carnival celebrating the Cuban revolution of 1959.

The ACLU argues that the removal of the books violates students' rights to a free press and that they were removed without due process.

Either the English- or Spanish-language book has been available at more than 20 schools in the district.