{"id":15402,"date":"2025-08-20T10:41:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T14:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/?page_id=15402"},"modified":"2026-01-09T15:42:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T20:42:21","slug":"57-bus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/57-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books 2025 &#8211; The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime that Changed Their Lives"},"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-2605\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/files\/2025\/08\/57-bus.jpg\" alt=\"The 57 bus book cover\" width=\"351\" height=\"499\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Held at Marshall University (Drinko Juvenile Collection &#8211; 364.15 S631bu)<\/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>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 20, 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-15402","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15402","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=15402"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15749,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15402\/revisions\/15749"}],"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=15402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}