{"id":5488,"date":"2020-08-04T10:55:49","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T15:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/?page_id=5488"},"modified":"2022-04-21T10:24:05","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T14:24:05","slug":"heather-has-two-mommies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/heather-has-two-mommies\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books 2020 &#8211; Heather has Two Mommies"},"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<h2>Links<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"\"><a id=\"current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2020\/author\/\">2020 Author<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2020\/title\/\">2020 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\/2020\/08\/heather-has-two-mommies.jpg\" alt=\"heather has two mommies\" width=\"1400\" height=\"2003\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2679\" \/><\/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>2020<\/h2>\n\n<p>Parents and teachers disagreed over the presence of LGBTQAI+ books that were purchased for a &#8220;diverse classroom libraries&#8221; initiative in the Loudoun County (VA) elementary and high schools. Twenty-seven books were formally challenged including <b>Heather Has Two Mommies<\/b> by Leslea Newman, <b>My Princess Boy<\/b> by Cheryl Kilodavis, Prince &amp; Knight by Daniel Haack, <b>So Hard to Say<\/b> by Alex Sanchez, <b>Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things<\/b> by Lenore Look, <b>Big Bob, Little Bob<\/b> by James Howe, <b>Dragons in a Bag<\/b> by Zetta Elliott, <b>Flowers from Mariko<\/b> by Rich Noguchi and Deneen Jenks, <b>Gabi, a Girl in Pieces<\/b> by Isabel Quintero, <b>Girls Like Me<\/b> by Nina Packebush, <b> Goldie Vance<\/b> by Hope Larson, <b>Hurricane Child<\/b> by Kacen Callender, <b>Mommy&#8217;s Khimar<\/b> by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow, <b>My Year in the Middle<\/b> by Lila Quintero Weaver, <b>Other Broken Things<\/b> by C. Desir, <b> Rani Patel In Full Effect<\/b> by Sonia Patel, <b> The Season of You &amp; Me<\/b> by Robine Constantine, <b>Silent Music: A Story of Baghdad<\/b> by James Rumford, <b>The Pants Project<\/b> by Cat Clarke, <b>The Witch Boy<\/b> by Molly Ostertag, <b>The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle<\/b> by Leslie Connor, <b> Want to Play Trucks?<\/b> by Ann Stott, <b>We March<\/b> by Shane W. Evans, <b>Weird Girl and What&#8217;s His Name<\/b> by Meagan Brothers, <b>Willow and the Wedding<\/b> by Denise Brennan-Nelson, <b> Zora and Me<\/b> by Victoria Bond and T. R. Simon, and <b>Ask My Mood Ring How I Feel<\/b> by Diana Lopez. Four titles were relocated to the middle school and three titles were relocated to higher grades within the school.<\/p>\n<p>A patron wrote to the newspaper stating that unlabeled LGBTQ books could be found in the children&#8217;s area of the Independence (KS) Public Library and they should be labeled and removed from that section, including <b>And Tango Makes Three<\/b> by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson, <b>Heather Has Two Mommies<\/b> by Leslea Newman, <b>Gay and Lesbian History for Kids<\/b> by Jerome Pohlen, <b>My Princess Boy<\/b> by Cheryl Kilodavis, <b>George<\/b> by Alex Gino, <b>Stella Brings the Family<\/b> by Miriam Schiffer, <b>Worm Loves Worm<\/b> by J. J. Austrian, <b>It&#8217;s Okay to Be Different<\/b> by Todd Parr, and <b>Families<\/b> by Shelly Rotner and Shelia M. Kelly. The patron stated, &#8220;There needs to be some kind of censorship on the books available to children. This is just a common sense request.&#8221;  She was invited to attend a library board meeting. Her letter asked others to join her. All nine books have been retained.<\/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 12, 2020<\/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-5488","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5488","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=5488"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9853,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5488\/revisions\/9853"}],"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=5488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}