{"id":13881,"date":"2023-08-22T10:55:16","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T14:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/?page_id=13881"},"modified":"2025-07-29T10:46:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T14:46:40","slug":"sold","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/sold\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books 2025 &#8211; Sold"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"marsha-row mt-4 mb-4 flex flex-wrap -mx-2 lg:-mx-6  justify-start border-0 border-gray-100 first:mt-0\">\n\t\n<p><!-- *  START LEFT COLUMN  *--><div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-3\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\n<h2>Links<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a id=\"current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2025\/author\/\">2025 Author<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2025\/title\/\">2025 Title<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/\">Banned Books Home<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Cover<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3433\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/files\/2023\/08\/sold.jpg\" alt=\"sold cover\" width=\"304\" height=\"475\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cabellcounty.ent.sirsi.net\/client\/en_US\/cabell\/search\/results?qu=sold+mccormick&amp;qf=AUTHOR%09Author%09McCormick%2C+Patricia%09McCormick%2C+Patricia+%7C%7C+Patricia+McCormick%09Patricia+McCormick+%7C%7C+McCormick%2C+Patricia%2C+1956-%09McCormick%2C+Patricia%2C+1956-&amp;qf=-PUBDATE%09Publication+Date%092005%092005&amp;qf=-PUBDATE%09Publication+Date%092016%092016\">Held at Cabell County Public Library.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- *** ** END LEFT COLUMN ** ***-->\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p><p><!-- *** ** START RIGHT COLUMN ** **--><div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-9\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\n<p><strong>Marshall University does not ban books!  The information is provided to let people know what has been banned\/challenged elsewhere.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>2025<\/h2>\n<p>Banned or challenged for being sexually explicit and depiction of sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>The King George County School District (VA) received challenges to more than 100 titles from an individual without a child in any of its schools. The challenges were all copied and pasted from pro-censorship book rating sites. After learning from the challenger that some school library books include gay characters, a local pastor began regularly advocating for book restrictions during board meetings. His son and daughter-in-law are both on the school board. Groups of parents, students, and concerned community members have spoken out against censoring school library books. Despite this, the board restricted access to dozens of titles, including <strong>Sold<\/strong>. Restricted books are kept under lock and key at the middle school library, and they are held behind the librarian\u2019s desk at the high school library<\/p>\n<h2>2024<\/h2>\n<p>Banned or challenged for being sexually explicit and discussing rape.<\/p>\n<p>In February, the Blackhawk Area School District (PA) began banning library books at the behest of two Moms for Liberty members serving on the board. Ten titles, including <strong>Sold<\/strong>, were removed without following district policy. On October 19, the board adopted a new policy allowing removal of library books any district resident deems objectionable to their \u201cvalues or fundamental religious beliefs.\u201d The policy requires removing the books as soon as a challenge is received. The Education Law Center and the American Association of School Librarians sent letters citing grave constitutional concerns and urging the Board to overturn this policy.<\/p>\n<h2>2023<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Sold<\/strong> was one of 35 titles challenged by a parent in the Council Rock School District (PA) for \u201csexual content.\u201d While McCormick\u2019s novel was retained, Alison Bechdel\u2019s <strong>Fun Home<\/strong> was removed from high school libraries despite the review committee\u2019s recommendation of retaining it.<\/p>\n<h2>On These Pages<\/h2>\n<p>A <strong>Banned<\/strong> book has been removed from a library, classroom, etc.<br \/>\nA <strong>Challenged<\/strong> book has been requested to be removed from a library, classroom, etc.<\/p>\n<h2>For additional information contact<\/h2>\n<p>Ron Titus, <a href=\"mailto:titus@marshall.edu\">titus@marshall.edu<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"tel:304-696-6575\">304-696-6575<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Last updated<\/h2>\n<p>July 29, 2025<\/p>\n<p><!-- ** ** END RIGHT COLUMN *** *-->\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<p><!-- *** * END FULL PAGE DIV * *** --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":784,"featured_media":0,"parent":2039,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13881","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13881"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15289,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13881\/revisions\/15289"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}