{"id":3252,"date":"2019-11-26T13:46:56","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T18:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/?page_id=3252"},"modified":"2022-04-22T10:56:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T14:56:10","slug":"city-of-thieves","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/city-of-thieves\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books 2019 &#8211; City of Thieves"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"\">\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<div style=\"\">\n                                            \n\n<h2>Links<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"\"><a id=\"current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2019\/author\/\">2019 Author<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2019\/title\/\">2019 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\" width=\"249\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/files\/2019\/09\/cityofthieves.jpg\" alt=\"city of thieves\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/files\/2019\/09\/cityofthieves.jpg 249w, https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/files\/2019\/09\/cityofthieves-187x300.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cabe.ent.sirsi.net\/client\/en_US\/cabell\/search\/results?qu=city+of+thieves&amp;qf=AUTHOR%09Author%09Benioff%2C+David.%09Benioff%2C+David.&amp;rt=false%7C%7C%7CTITLE%7C%7C%7CTitle\">Held at Cabell County Public Library<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- *** ** END LEFT COLUMN ** ***-->\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\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>2019<\/h2>\n<p>This New York Times bestseller was one of eight options randomly assigned to students in a pre-International Baccalaureate English class. A parent objected to vulgar and sexually violent language in this coming-of-age story set in WWII Leningrad. Lee County (FL) School District officials banned the book and vowed to &#8220;tighten up the process for selecting books for this kind of class.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>2016<\/h2>\n<p>Challenged at the Republic Schools in Nashville (TN) despite the charter school operator redacting and changing portions of the book that were deemed &#8220;inappropriate&#8221; for middle school students. The 2008 work of historical fiction chronicles the perils and lives of two boys in World War II-era Leningrad and includes profanity and sexually explicit scenes.<\/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>June 27, 2019<\/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":39,"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-3252","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3252","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3252"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9908,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3252\/revisions\/9908"}],"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=3252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}