View source for Challenged Book: And the Earth did not Devour Him

{{Display censorship incident
|ongoing=no
|year=2013
|region=North America
|artist=Tomas Rivera
|subject=Violence, Youth
|confronting_bodies=Athens, Georgia school
|medium=Literature
|date_of_action=6/13/13
|location=Clarke County school in Athens, Georgia
|description_of_content=Tomás Rivera’s coming-of-age story of a Mexican boy’s life in a migrant family in the 1940s and 1950s, with its themes of family life and tensions. 
|description_of_incident=The parents of a Clarke County seventh grade student demanded that the Clarke County Board of Education overturn Superintendent Philip Lanoue’s decision not to remove the award-winning book from an Athens, Georgia school. These parents did not want their child exposed to profanity and a lot of offensive language. 
|description_of_result=The book has been decided to be restricted to Supplemental reading. Afterwards, this decision was appealed, and it was retained by board vote on 9/9/13.

David Huff, vice president of the school board, opposed the ban. He said that the board should be focusing on bigger issues, such as improving graduation rates, cutting-edge technology, and the future of education, not short-term political distractions.
|image=And the earth .jpg
|source=http://bannedbooks.world.edu/2013/06/16/banned-books-awareness-and-the-earth-did-not-devour-him/
}}