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  2. '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 ...

  3. 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]

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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.

  6. 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 ...

  7. Khaled Hosseini - Wikipedia

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    The following year, he enrolled in the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, where he graduated with his M.D. in 1993. In 1997, he finished his internal medicine residency at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre. Up to a year and a half after The Kite Runner's publication, he spent more than ten years practicing medicine.

  8. Major publishers sue Florida over book ban law in schools

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    "There are no books banned in Florida. Sexually explicit material and instruction are not suitable for schools." Not named is Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who championed the law.

  9. U.S. state and local government responses to the COVID-19 ...

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    Full map including municipalities. State, territorial, tribal, and local governments responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States with various declarations of emergency, closure of schools and public meeting places, lockdowns, and other restrictions intended to slow the progression of the virus.