{"id":6326,"date":"2020-11-11T10:13:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T15:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/?page_id=6326"},"modified":"2026-08-03T10:18:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T14:18:56","slug":"identical","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/identical\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books 2026 &#8211; Identical"},"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-2026\/author\/\">2026 Author<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2026\/title\/\">2026 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\/11\/identical.jpg\" alt=\"identical cover\" width=\"1400\" height=\"2003\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2679\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cabellcounty.ent.sirsi.net\/client\/en_US\/cabell\/search\/results?qu=identical+hopkins&amp;qf=-AUTHOR%09Author%09Glatt%2C+John%2C+author%09Glatt%2C+John%2C+author\">Held at Cabell County Public Library.<\/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>2026<\/h2>\n<p>21 challenges, including 20 multi-title challenges<\/p>\n<p>On October 13, the board of New Braunfels Independent School District (TX) voted unanimously to suspend all secondary school library services until the superintendent could ensure they were in compliance with Senate Bill 13. The bill prohibited \u201charmful material,\u201d \u201cindecent content,\u201d and \u201cprofane content\u201d from school libraries, but did not define those terms. No other district in Texas took this extreme measure. Following community protests, the board voted to renew library service during its October 27 meeting. AI was used to continue reviewing library books, resulting in the censorship of well over 100 titles. <strong>Tricks<\/strong>, <strong>Identical<\/strong>, and <strong>Tilt<\/strong> were among those banned.<\/p>\n<h2>2025<\/h2>\n<p>During the August 12 board meeting of the Lehighton Area School District (PA), treasurer Sean Gleaves, a member of Moms for Liberty, called for the removal of 33 titles from school libraries. Gleaves said he believed the books were inappropriate because they contained \u201cLGBTQ issues\u201d and \u201ccritical race theory.\u201d <strong>Tricks<\/strong>, <strong>Crank<\/strong>, and <strong>Identical<\/strong> were included on his list.<\/p>\n<h2>2024<\/h2>\n<p>In March, officials of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District (AK) required removal of all \u201csexually explicit\u201d titles listed on a book rating site often used by Moms for Liberty. Numerous books were removed from school libraries without following policy, including <strong>Tricks<\/strong>. In September, the school board formed a \u201cLibrary Citizens Advisory Committee\u201d to review dozens of additional titles. To date, they have censored every title reviewed. They banned 16 titles from all school libraries, including <strong>Identical<\/strong>. <strong>Crank<\/strong> was among 14 titles removed from middle school collections. On November 17, ACLU of Alaska filed a lawsuit against the district on behalf of six students claiming violation of their constitutional rights through the district\u2019s removal of 56 library books.<\/p>\n<h2>2015<\/h2>\n<p>Challenged in the Appoquinimink School District in Middletown (DE). A parent complained about the young adult book and then began circulating a petition to require the school district to adopt a process for ensuring that all material was age appropriate. The New York Times best seller deals with the story of a child who was sexually abused by her father. <\/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 3, 2026<\/p>\n<p><!-- ** ** END RIGHT COLUMN *** *-->\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<p><!-- *** * END FULL PAGE DIV * blocked in the processing de*** --><\/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-6326","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6326","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=6326"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16130,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6326\/revisions\/16130"}],"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=6326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}