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“Not sure if there is a God or why some all-powerful being would give half a damn about the likes of me.”
– from Tricks<\/a><\/em>\u00a0by Ellen Hopkins<\/a>, a frequently banned book
#98<\/strong> on the American Library Association’s<\/a> list of top 100 most banned and challenged books, 2010-2019<\/a>, but more recently among the top ten in Iowa<\/a>, according to the Des Moines Register<\/a> (bummer about the paywall).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Not sure if there is a God or why some all-powerful being would give half a damn about the likes of me.” – from Tricks\u00a0by Ellen Hopkins, a frequently banned book#98 on the American Library Association’s list of top 100 most banned and challenged books, 2010-2019, but more recently among the top ten in Iowa, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[24,27,25,26],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qotd_banned_book","tag-book-banning","tag-censorship","tag-lgbtqa-issues","tag-queer-issues"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfkMc6-2d","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130,"url":"https:\/\/re-faith.org\/index.php\/2023\/12\/05\/usually-responsible-banned-book-quote-of-the-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":137,"position":0},"title":"Usually responsible – banned book quote of the day","author":"re-faith.org","date":"December 5, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"\"George and Harold were usually responsible kids. 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