Report: “10 More Books Pulled From South Carolina Public School Shelves”
From Count on 2 News:
Another 10 books have joined the growing list of titles banned from South Carolina public school libraries and classrooms following a Tuesday vote by the State Board of Education.
The board voted during its May 6 meeting to pull the books from all K-12 shelves as part of a larger agenda. Dr. David O’Shields and Rev. Tony Vincent were the only dissenting votes.
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The latest set of removed materials includes the following:
- Tricks by Ellen Hopkins
- Lucky by Alice Sebold
- Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
- Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
- Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas
- Identical by Ellen Hopkins
- Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas
- Hopeless by Colleen Hoover
- Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimananda Ngozi Adichie
- Collateral by Ellen Hopkins
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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