{"id":8694,"date":"2021-09-09T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/?page_id=8694"},"modified":"2022-08-16T11:00:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T15:00:58","slug":"ready-player-one","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/ready-player-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books 2022 &#8211; Ready Player One"},"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<h2>Links<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a id=\"current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2022\/author\/\">2022 Author<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2022\/title\/\">2022 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 decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/files\/2021\/09\/ready-player-one.jpg\" alt=\"ready player one book cover\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2351\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mulibiiidb.marshall.edu\/record=b1818986~S12\">Held at Marshall University (Drinko General Collection &#8211; PS3603.L548 R43 2011b)<\/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>2022<\/h2>\n<p>The Hamilton (MI) school board established book clubs in 2017, featuring some 70,000 books to encourage reading from grade 5 and up. Several middle school parents complained of &#8220;profane language&#8221; in <strong>Ready Player One<\/strong>. After a new vetting system was put in place some parents still complained about <strong>Ready Player One<\/strong> because it lacked educational value and contained inappropriate material, so they wanted it removed rather than used in higher grades.<\/p>\n<h2>2021<\/h2>\n<p>The Hamilton (MI) school board established a book club, featuring some 70,000 books to encourage reading from grade 5 and up. However, a new materials-vetting committee and several district parents expressed concerns about material they believed was not age appropriate. Some books ended up at grade levels younger than the publisher\u2019s classification. The superintendent said he would be hesitant to \u201cban\u201d any books from the school, as that would be a \u201cslippery slope\u201d for the district. <strong>Ready Player One<\/strong> was called out as a problematic title.<\/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 16, 2022<\/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-8694","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8694","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=8694"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11500,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8694\/revisions\/11500"}],"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=8694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}