{"id":5308,"date":"2020-07-21T13:15:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T18:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/?page_id=5308"},"modified":"2025-08-11T10:52:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T14:52:24","slug":"diary-of-a-young-girl","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/diary-of-a-young-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books 2025 &#8211; The Diary of a Young Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"marsha-row mt-4 mb-4 flex flex-wrap -mx-2 lg:-mx-6  justify-start border-0 border-gray-100 first:mt-0\">\n\t\n<p><!-- *  START LEFT COLUMN  *--><div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-3\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\n<h2>Links<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a id=\"current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2025\/author\/\">2025 Author<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2025\/title\/\">2025 Title<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/\">Banned Books Home<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><hr \/><\/p>\n<h2>Cover<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/files\/2020\/07\/diary-of-a-young-girl.jpg\" alt=\"the diary of a young girl\" width=\"1400\" height=\"2003\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2679\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mulibiiidb.marshall.edu\/record=b1029122~S12\">Held at Marshall (Drinko General Collection &#8211;  D810.J4 F715).<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- *** ** END LEFT COLUMN ** ***-->\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p><p><!-- *** ** START RIGHT COLUMN ** **--><div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-9\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\n<p><strong>Marshall University does not ban books!  The information is provided to let people know what has been banned\/challenged elsewhere.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>2025<\/h2>\n<p>On August 12, 2024, the board of the Elizabeth School District (CO) announced they were removing 19 titles from school libraries \u201cfor review\u201d and requiring parental permission for 110 others. The board cited concerns over the religious views expressed; LGBTQIA+ content; and depictions of drug use, sex, and violence in the books. <strong>Nineteen Minutes<\/strong> was one of the titles removed. Titles requiring parental permission included <strong>1984<\/strong>, <strong>Fahrenheit 451<\/strong>, <strong>Brave New World<\/strong>, and <strong>Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl<\/strong>. On March 19, 2025, a federal judge ordered the district to restore access to all 129 titles and prohibited further censorship of library books \u201cbecause the district disagrees with the views expressed therein or merely to further their preferred political or religious orthodoxy.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>2020<\/h2>\n\n<p>A patron of the Josephine County Library district (Grants Pass, OR) complained about &#8220;talk about the vagina, penis, and sex&#8221; in Anne Frank&#8217;s <b>The Diary of a Young Girl<\/b>, and requested that an edited version replace it. After consideration by a committee of the various merits of different editions, the original material was retained in the children&#8217;s section as well as the adult and young adult sections of the library.<\/p>\n<h2>2014<\/h2>\n<p>Challenged, but retained in the Northville (MI) middle schools despite anatomical descriptions in the book. Before the school district&#8217;s vote, 10 free speech organizations signed a letter urging the Northville School District to keep the book. The letter, which was sent to the superintendent and board of education members, &#8220;emphasized the power and relatability of Frank&#8217;s diary for middle school students. Frank&#8217;s honest writings about her body and the changes she was undergoing during her two-year period of hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam can serve as an excellent resource for students undergoing these changes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>2011<\/h2>\n<p>Challenged at the Culpeper County (VA) public school by a parent requesting that her daughter not be required to read the book aloud. Initially, it was reported that officials have decided to stop assigning a version of Anne Frank&#8217;s diary, one of the most enduring symbols of the atrocities of the Nazi regime, due to the complaint that the book includes sexual material and homosexual themes. The director of instruction announced the edition, published on the 50th anniversary of Frank&#8217;s death in a concentration camp, will not be used in the future despite the fact the school system did not follow its own policy for handling complaints. The remarks set off a hailstorm of criticisms online and brought international attention to the 7,600-student school system in rural Virginia. The superintendent said, however, that the book will remain part of the English classes, although it may be taught at a different grade level.<\/p>\n<h2>2010<\/h2>\n<p>Challenged at the Culpeper County (VA) public school by a parent requesting that her daughter not be required to read the book aloud. Initially, it was reported that officials have decided to stop assigning a version of Anne Frank&#8217;s diary, one of the most enduring symbols of the atrocities of the Nazi regime, due to the complaint that the book includes sexual material and homosexual themes. The director of instruction announced the edition, published on the 50th anniversary of Frank&#8217;s death in a concentration camp, will not be used in the future despite the fact the school system did not follow its own policy for handling complaints. The remarks set off a hailstorm of criticisms online and brought international attention to the 7,600-student school system in rural Virginia. The superintendent said, however, that the book will remain part of the English classes, although it may be taught at a different grade level.<\/p>\n<h2>On These Pages<\/h2>\n<p>A <strong>Banned<\/strong> book has been removed from a library, classroom, etc.<br \/>\nA <strong>Challenged<\/strong> book has been requested to be removed from a library, classroom, etc.<\/p>\n<h2>For additional information contact<\/h2>\n<p>Ron Titus, <a href=\"mailto:titus@marshall.edu\">titus@marshall.edu<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"tel:304-696-6575\">304-696-6575<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Last updated<\/h2>\n<p>August 11, 2025<\/p>\n<p><!-- ** ** END RIGHT COLUMN *** *-->\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<p><!-- *** * END FULL PAGE DIV * *** --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":784,"featured_media":0,"parent":2039,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5308","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5308"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15373,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5308\/revisions\/15373"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}