{"id":1156,"date":"2014-08-14T19:17:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T00:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2014-08-28T11:12:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T16:12:05","slug":"cameron-post-ends-summer-reading-in-delaware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1156","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Cameron Post&#8221; Ends Summer Reading in Delaware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Miseducation of Cameron Post\u00a0<\/em>is a 2012 book that chronicles the life of Cameron Post. After her parents die, she is forced to move to Montana to live with a conservative aunt while trying to blend in to survive. When she meets Coley Taylor, though, things change. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/11595276-the-miseducation-of-cameron-post\">Goodreads<\/a>: &#8220;<span style=\"color: #181818;\">She and Cam forge an unexpected and intense friendship&#8211;one that seems to leave room for something more to emerge. But just as that starts to seem like a real possibility, ultrareligious Aunt Ruth takes drastic action to &#8220;fix&#8221; her niece, bringing Cam face-to-face with the cost of denying her true self&#8211;even if she&#8217;s not exactly sure who that is.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The book was an ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults pick and a Lambda Literary Award nominee. And it was part of the Cape Henlopen summer reading list until this week. The board r<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2014\/08\/11\/us-delaware-school-suspends-all-summer-reading-after-lesbian-themed-book-causes-controversy\/\">emoved the book from the summer reading list<\/a> after receiving complaints. They removed the book because they had no apparatus in place to adjudicate and deal with controversial material. Although the main reason cited was &#8220;language,&#8221; sources noted that other books on the list had similar language.<\/p>\n<p>This led to the entire summer reading program being ended for the summer. Only one school board member voted to keep the book on the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman The Miseducation of Cameron Post\u00a0is a 2012 book that chronicles the life of Cameron Post. After her parents die, she is forced to move to Montana to live with a conservative aunt while trying to blend in to survive. When she meets Coley Taylor, though, things change. Via Goodreads: &#8220;She and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glbt-news","category-media-of-note"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}