{"id":9486,"date":"2022-03-14T15:08:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T19:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/?page_id=9486"},"modified":"2023-06-22T14:45:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T18:45:36","slug":"what-my-mother-doesnt-know","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/what-my-mother-doesnt-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books 2022 \u2013 What My Mother Doesn&#8217;t Know"},"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<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<hr \/>\n<h2>Cover<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3408\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/files\/2022\/03\/whatmymother.jpg\" alt=\"what my mother doesn't know book cover\" width=\"260\" height=\"322\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cabellcounty.ent.sirsi.net\/client\/en_US\/cabell\/search\/results?qu=what+my+mother+doesn%27t+know&amp;te=\">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>2022<\/h2>\n<p>At the Bedford County (VA) Public Schools, Moms for Liberty challenged <strong>The Bluest Eye<\/strong> along with <strong>Beloved<\/strong>, also by Toni Morrison, plus <strong>The Kite Runner<\/strong> by Khaled Hosseini, <strong>The Glass Castle<\/strong> by Jeannette Walls, <strong>#MurderTrending<\/strong> by Gretchen McNeil, <strong>Two Boys Kissing<\/strong> by David Levithan, <strong>All Boys Aren\u2019t Blue<\/strong> by George M. Johnson, <strong>What My Mother Doesn\u2019t Know<\/strong> by Sonya Sones, <strong>Rick<\/strong> by Alex Gino, <strong>Freakboy<\/strong> by Kristin Elizabeth Clark, <strong>Love Drugged<\/strong> by James Klise, and <strong>Beautiful Music for Ugly Children<\/strong> by Kristin Cronn-Mills. The group said it objected to graphic depictions of sexual acts, violence, substance use, and LGBTQIA+ representation. Board members cited policy, which limited challenges to one book at a time. BCPS administrators and book review committees made the decision not to remove any of the challenged titles from school libraries.<\/p>\n<h2>2012<\/h2>\n<p>Banned or challenged for nudity, offensive language, and being sexually explicit.<\/p>\n<h2>2011<\/h2>\n<p>Challenged for sexism, sexually explicit scenes and being unsuited for age group.<\/p>\n<h2>2008<\/h2>\n<p>Available only to 7th and 8th graders at the Spring Hill (WI) School library after a parent wanted the book, which deals with masturbation, groping, and sexual fantasy, among other themes, to be removed from the library and the accelerated reading program.<\/p>\n<h2>2006<\/h2>\n<p>Challenged for sexual content and being unsuited to age group.<\/p>\n<h2>2005<\/h2>\n<p>Challenged at the Bonnette Junior High School in Deer Park (TX) for foul language and references to masturbation.<\/p>\n<h2>2004<\/h2>\n<p>Removed from the library shelves of the Rosedale Union School District in Bakersfield (CA) because of discomfort with Sones&#8217; poem Ice Capades &#8211; a teenage girl&#8217;s description of how her breasts react to cold.<\/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 22, 2023<\/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":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9486","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9486","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=9486"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12839,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9486\/revisions\/12839"}],"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=9486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}