{"id":4708,"date":"2020-06-16T07:58:01","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T12:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/?page_id=4708"},"modified":"2025-07-22T09:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:49:13","slug":"title","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2017\/title\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Book Week 2017 &#8211; Title"},"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<div>\n                                            \n        \n    <div\n        id=\"books-by-year\"\n        x-data=\"accordion('books-by-year', false)\"\n        class=\"rounded-lg overflow-hidden mb-2 transition-all duration-300 ease-out bg-gray-50\"\n        x-bind:class=\"expanded ? 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Clemens]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/after-the-first-death\/\">After the First Death<\/a> &#8211; Robert Cormier<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/all-the-bright-places\/\">All the Bright Places<\/a> &#8211; Jenifer Niven<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/atonement\/\">Atonement<\/a> &#8211; Ian McEwan<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bad-kitty-for-president\/\">Bad Kitty for President<\/a> &#8211; Nick Bruel<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/beloved\/\">Beloved<\/a> &#8211; Toni Morrison<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/big-hard-sex-criminals\/\">Big Hard Sex Criminals<\/a> &#8211; Matt Fraction<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/bannedbooks\/the-bluest-eye\/\">The Bluest Eye<\/a> &#8211; Morrison, Toni<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/cyanide-and-happiness-punching-zoo\/\">Cyanide and Happiness: Punching Zoo<\/a> &#8211; Kris Wilson, Rob DenBleyker, Matt Melvin, and Dave McElfatrick<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/dope-sick\/\">Dope Sick<\/a> &#8211; Walter Dean Myers<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/drama-2\/\">Drama<\/a> &#8211; Raina Telgemeier<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/eleanor-and-park\/\">Eleanor &amp; Park<\/a> &#8211; Rainbow Rowell<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/fifty-shades-of-grey\/\">Fifty Shades of Grey<\/a> &#8211; E L. James<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/first-french-kiss\/\">First French Kiss<\/a> &#8211; Adam Bagdasarian<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/george\/\">George<\/a> &#8211; Alex Gino<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/bannedbooks\/the-glass-castle\/\">The Glass Castle: A Memoir<\/a> &#8211; Jeannettee Walls<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/go-tell-it-on-the-mountain\/\">Go Tell It on the Mountain<\/a> &#8211; James Baldwin<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/the-god-of-small-things\/\">The God of Small Things<\/a> &#8211; Arundhati Roy<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/bannedbooks\/gutless\/\">Gutless<\/a> &#8211; Deuker, Carl<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/a-heartbreaking-work-of-staggering-genius\/\">A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius<\/a> &#8211; Dave Eggers<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/i-am-jazz\/\">I am Jazz<\/a> &#8211; Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/i-know-why-the-caged-bird-sings\/\">I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings<\/a> &#8211; Maya Angelou<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/iqbal\/\">Iqbal<\/a> by Francesco D&#8217;Adamo<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/its-perfectly-normal\/\">It&#8217;s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health<\/a> by Robie H. Harris<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/land\/\">The Land<\/a> by Mildred D. Taylor<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/little-bill\/\">Little Bill series<\/a> by Bill Cosby<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/looking-for-alaska\/\">Looking for Alaska<\/a> &#8211; John Green<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/love-lessons\/\">Love Lessons<\/a> by Jacqueline Wilson<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/lovely-bones\/\">The Lovely Bones<\/a> by Alice Sebold<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/make-something-up\/\">Make Something Up: Stories You Can&#8217;t Unread<\/a> by Chuck Palahniuk<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/merriam-webster-collegiate-dictionary\/\">Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/morris-micklewhite-and-the-tangerine-dress\/\">Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress<\/a> &#8211; Christine Baldacchino<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/bannedbooks\/my-world-history\/\">My World History<\/a> &#8211; Frank Karpiel and Kathleen Krull<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/one-part-woman\/\">One Part Woman (Madhorubhagan)<\/a> by Perumal Murugan<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/outsiders\/\">The Outsiders<\/a> by S. E. Hinton<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/paper-towns\/\">Paper Towns<\/a> by John Green<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/bannedbooks\/a-peoples-history-of-the-united-states\/\">A People&#8217;s History of the United States<\/a> &#8211; Howard Zinn<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower\/\">The Perks of Being a Wallflower<\/a> &#8211; Stephen Chbosky<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/raped-little-runaway\/\">The Raped Little Runaway<\/a> &#8211; Jean Martin<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/robert-mapplethorpe\/\">Robert Mapplethorpe: The Photographs<\/a> &#8211; Paul Martineau and Britt Salvesen<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/a-separate-peace\/\">A Separate Peace<\/a> &#8211; John Knowles<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs\/\">Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs<\/a> &#8211; Kathryn Harper<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/thirteen-reasons-why\/\">Thirteen Reasons Why<\/a> &#8211; Jay Asher<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/this-one-summer\/\">This One Summer<\/a> &#8211; Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/to-kill-a-mockingbird\/\">To Kill a Mockingbird<\/a> &#8211; Harper Lee<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/trash\/\">Trash<\/a> &#8211; Andy Mulligan<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/bannedbooks\/troublemakers\/\">The Troublemakers<\/a> &#8211; Gilbert Hernandez<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/bannedbooks\/ttfn\/\">TTFN<\/a> &#8211; Lauren Myracle<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/bannedbooks\/ttyl\/\">TTYL<\/a> &#8211; Lauren Myracle<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/two-boys-kissing\/\">Two Boys Kissing<\/a> &#8211; David Levithan<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/bannedbooks\/tyrell\/\">Tyrell<\/a> &#8211; Coe Booth<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/bannedbooks\/weenies-series\/\">Weenies series<\/a> &#8211; David Lubar<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/wolf-boys\/\">Wolf Boys: Two American Teenagers and Mexico&#8217;s Most Dangerous Drug Cartel<\/a> &#8211; Dan Slater<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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 31, 2017<\/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":4677,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4708","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4708","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=4708"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15220,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4708\/revisions\/15220"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}