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Goddard school district orders 29 books removed from circulation
KMUW | By Suzanne Perez
Published November 9, 2021 at 3:24 PM CST
WICHITA, Kansas The Goddard school district has removed more than two dozen books from circulation in the districts school libraries, citing national attention and challenges to the books elsewhere.
The list of books includes several well-known novels, including The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas and The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky.
It also includes Fences, a play by August Wilson that won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1987, and They Called Themselves the K.K.K., a historical look at how the white supremacist group took root in America.
Julie Cannizzo, assistant superintendent for academic affairs in Goddard, sent an email to principals and librarians last week with the list of 29 books.
At this time, the district is not in a position to know if the books contained on this list meet our educational goals or not, Cannizzo wrote in the email. Additionally, we need to gain a better understanding of the processes utilized to select books for our school libraries.
For these reasons, please do not allow any of these books to be checked out while we are in the process of gathering more information. If a book on this list is currently checked out, please do (not) allow it to be checked out again once it's returned.
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Here is the list of books ordered to be removed from circulation in Goddard school libraries:
#MurderTrending by Gretchen McNeil
All Boys Arent Blue by George M. Johnson
Anger is a Gift by Mark Oshiro
Black Girl Unlimited by Echo Brown
Blended by Sharon M. Draper
Crank by Ellen Hopkins
Fences by August Wilson
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
Heavy by Kaise Laymon
Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison
Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart
Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
Mondays Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez
Satanism by Tamara L. Roleff
The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime that Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow
The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Handmaids Tale: The Graphic Novel adapted by Renee Nault
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group by Susan Campbell Bertoletti
This Book is Gay by James Dawson
This One Summer (graphic novel) by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard by Alex Bertie
Suzanne Perez reports on education for KMUW in Wichita and the Kansas News Service. You can follow her on Twitter @SuzPerezICT.
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Lovie777
(15,205 posts)so reading books of any kind won't stop. This reminds me of history ya know that pesky history wherein Whites did not allow Slaves to learn how to read.
I rest my case.
Girard442
(6,430 posts)Next up, all books about Germany in the 1930's.
Full of spoilers, dontcha know.
marble falls
(62,463 posts)... and most of the rest might have made it there if they had been published thirty years ago. Toni Morrison for pete's sakes.
Only a coincidence more three quarters had women authors.
ratchiweenie
(7,944 posts)marble falls
(62,463 posts)KS Toronado
(19,700 posts)When's the public book burnings start? Reminds me of some 1930's Fascists!
AleksS
(1,701 posts)does it, dont you know?
Its kind of a corollary to IOKIYAR.
patphil
(7,102 posts)I know she has read the majority of these books; I've seen a lot of them in the house.
I know she recommends them to the teens who come into the library, and has had book discussions on several of them.
Banning books is always counter productive. It only makes them more popular, and it's impossible to prevent kids from reading them.
Also, the internet makes book banning a futile undertaking.
Parents are wasting their time getting all worked up about the books in the school library. Any child who wants to read these books will. And, they'll end up wondering what the fuss was all about.
bahboo
(16,953 posts)she will not be happy.