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  2. The Kite Runner - Wikipedia

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    The Kite Runner was one of the most banned books in 2021-2022. [35] As of 2024, the book has been banned from libraries at schools in Florida, Michigan, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Pennsylvania, Idaho, and Wisconsin. [36]

  3. 'I did not write it to titillate a reader': Authors of books ...

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    He provided a statement in 2022 to The Ledger in Lakeland, Florida, after a conservative group there pushed for "The Kite Runner" and other books to be banned from schools: "High school students ...

  4. List of most commonly challenged books in the United States

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    The Kite Runner: Khaled Hosseini: Offensive language, unsuited to age group, violence 2003 11 50 — Lady Chatterley's Lover: D. H. Lawrence: Sexual content 1928 — — — Lawn Boy: Jonathan Evison: LGBT and sexual content [11] 2018 — — — Less than Zero: Bret Easton Ellis: Drug abuse, sexual content, language and a bisexual main ...

  5. US public schools banned over 10K books during 2023-2024 ...

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    The newspaper filed records requests with all 325 school districts in the state and found that nearly 3,400 books were removed because of the ban before a federal injunction halted enforcement in ...

  6. The 15 most banned books in America this school year

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    In 1987, "Animal Farm" was one of dozens of books banned in schools in Bay County, Fla. Then 44 parents, students and teachers filed a federal lawsuit, and the school board reversed the decision.

  7. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Wikipedia

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    A Thousand Splendid Suns is a 2007 novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini, following the huge success of his bestselling 2003 debut The Kite Runner.Mariam, an illegitimate teenager from Herat, is forced to marry a shoemaker from Kabul after a family tragedy.

  8. Stephen King gives blunt three-word response after ... - AOL

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    Stephen King has given a blunt three-word response to discovering that 23 of his books have been banned from school libraries in Florida, a law that is now being challenged by six major book ...

  9. The Kite Runner (film) - Wikipedia

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    The Kite Runner is a 2007 American drama film directed by Marc Forster from a screenplay by David Benioff and based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Khaled Hosseini. It tells the story of Amir ( Ebrahimi ) a well-to-do boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul who is tormented by the guilt of abandoning his friend Hassan ( Mahmoodzada ).