{"id":6072,"date":"2020-10-26T13:27:45","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T18:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/?page_id=6072"},"modified":"2022-04-25T14:31:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T18:31:09","slug":"extremely-loud","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/extremely-loud\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books 2016 &#8211; Extremely Loud &amp; Incredibly Close"},"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-2016\/author\/\">2016 Author<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2016\/title\/\">2016 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-3112\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/files\/2020\/10\/extremelyloud.jpg\" alt=\"extremely loud and incredibly close cover\" width=\"500\" height=\"837\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cabellcounty.ent.sirsi.net\/client\/en_US\/cabell\/search\/results?qu=extremely+loud&amp;qf=AUTHOR%09Author%09Jonathan+Safran+Foer%09Jonathan+Safran+Foer+%7C%7C+Foer%2C+Jonathan+Safran%09Foer%2C+Jonathan+Safran+%7C%7C+Foer%2C+Jonathan+Safran%2C+1977-%09Foer%2C+Jonathan+Safran%2C+1977-+%7C%7C+Foer%2C+Jonathan+Safran%2C+1977-%2C+author.%09Foer%2C+Jonathan+Safran%2C+1977-%2C+author.+%7C%7C+Foer%2C+Jonathan+Safran%2C+1977-.%2C+author.%09Foer%2C+Jonathan+Safran%2C+1977-.%2C+author.&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\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>2016<\/h2>\n<p>Removed from the Mattoon (IL) High School curriculum because of &#8220;its use of lewd and possibly offensive materials.&#8221; The novel&#8217;s narrator is a nine-year-old boy, Oskar Schell, who lost his father in the 9\/11 attack on the World Trade Center and is convinced that his dad left a final message for him somewhere in the city.<\/p>\n<h2>2011<\/h2>\n<p>Challenged in the Richland (WA) School District. Used in a tenth-grad honors language arts class at Hanford High, the book tells the story of Oskar Schell, a young boy whose father died in the 9\/11 World Trade Center Attacks. The book contains profanity, sex, and descriptions of violence.<\/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>July 21, 2016<\/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-6072","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6072","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=6072"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9998,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6072\/revisions\/9998"}],"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=6072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}