{"id":15395,"date":"2025-08-20T10:17:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T14:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/?page_id=15395"},"modified":"2026-08-04T15:46:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T19:46:50","slug":"light-in-the-attic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/light-in-the-attic\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books 2026 &#8211; A Light in the Attic"},"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-2026\/author\/\">2026 Author<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2026\/title\/\">2026 Title<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/\">Banned Books Home<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><hr \/><\/p>\n<h2>Cover<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/files\/2025\/08\/a-light-in-the-attic.jpg\" alt=\"a light in the attic book cover\" width=\"351\" height=\"499\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2605\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mulibiiidb.marshall.edu\/record=b1044155~S12\">Held at Marshall University (Drinko Juvenile Collection &#8211; 811 S587L)<\/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>2026<\/h2>\n<p>In April, Oak Ridge School District (TN) announced they removed 298 titles from their libraries in order to comply with Tennessee\u2019s Age-Appropriate Materials Act, which was amended in 2024. The removed books included <strong>Looking for Alaska<\/strong> by John Green, <strong>A Light in the Attic<\/strong> by Shel Silverstein, and <strong>The Diary of a Young Girl<\/strong> by Anne Frank. Materials related to medicine, ancient history, mythology, and art from the Renaissance era through the 20th century were also removed.<\/p>\n<h2>2025<\/h2>\n<p>On December 3, 2024,  Knox County Schools (TN) announced the removal of 48 titles from all libraries to comply with SB 2407. The Knox County chapter of Moms for Liberty helped identify titles for removal. Titles banned included <strong>Slaughterhouse-Five<\/strong>, <strong>The 57 Bus<\/strong>, <strong>A Light in the Attic<\/strong>, and <strong>In the Night Kitchen<\/strong>. Teachers and parents of district students spoke out against the lost educational opportunities for their children during the first board meeting after the book bans were announced.<\/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>August 24, 2026<\/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-15395","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15395","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=15395"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16180,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15395\/revisions\/16180"}],"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=15395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}