On These PagesĪ Banned book has been removed from a library, classroom, etc.Ī Challenged book has been requested to be removed from a library, classroom, etc. Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified. Based on real accounts of life at boot camps in the United States that function as prisons rather than centers for rehabilitation. A local police chief, in favor of removing the books, announced that he was running for a seat on the board. Simon & Schuster, Limited, 2007 - Family problems - 238 pages. Boot Camp (2007), a young adult fiction novel by Todd Strasser, follows Garrett, who endures emotional and physical abuse when his parents send him to a boot camp to correct his erratic behavior at home and school. Garrett is an average fifteen-year-old, except that he’s in love with an older woman.

The school board voted to retain the titles. From Todd Strasser, a truly shocking (Kliatt) account of the prison-style workings of teen boot camps. His YA novels including such award winners as The Wave, Price of Duty, No Place, If I Grow Up, Boot Camp, Cant Get There From Here, Give a Boy a Gun, Wish You. After committee evaluations, she replied to patents’ complaints: the two Strasser books would remain in the classroom collections and Asher’s book would be relocated to the school library. Parents of the Westwood (NJ) Regional Schools argued that Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher, and Can’t Get There From Here and Boot Camp by Todd Strasser, had the potential to do “irrevocable harm and should be pulled from the school.”” Following an author visit from Strasser, all three books were added to the Westwood Regional Middle School language arts classroom library by the principal. Marshall University does not ban books! The information is provided to let people know what has been banned/challenged elsewhere.

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