{"id":6364,"date":"2020-11-17T09:24:32","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T14:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/?page_id=6364"},"modified":"2025-08-11T10:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T14:46:12","slug":"nineteen-minutes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/nineteen-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books 2025 &#8211; Nineteen Minutes"},"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\/11\/nineteenminutes.jpg\" alt=\"nineteen minutes cover\" width=\"1400\" height=\"2003\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2679\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mulibiiidb.marshall.edu\/record=b2270066~S12\">Held at Marshall University (Drinko General Collection &#8211; PS3566.I372 N56 2020)<\/a> and<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cabellcounty.ent.sirsi.net\/client\/en_US\/cabell\/search\/results?qu=nineteen+minutes&amp;qf=AUTHOR%09Author%09Picoult%2C+Jodi%09Picoult%2C+Jodi+%7C%7C+Picoult%2C+Jodi%2C+1966-%09Picoult%2C+Jodi%2C+1966-&amp;rt=false%7C%7C%7CTITLE%7C%7C%7CTitle\">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>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>2015<\/h2>\n<p>Challenged at the Gilford (NH) High School. Challenged but retained at the Kennett (PA) High School despite a parent&#8217;s complaint that the content in the book is not suitable for high school students. The award-winning novel depicts a school shooting in a fictional New Hampshire high school. The novel contains depictions of physical violence in public schools and a scene of graphic sexual activity.<\/p>\n<h2>2009<\/h2>\n<p>Restricted to high school students with parental permission at the Beardstown (IL) High School library because the novel &#8220;describes sex, uses foul language, and contains other &#8216;R-rated&#8217; content.&#8221;<\/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>July 2025<\/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-6364","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6364","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=6364"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15372,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6364\/revisions\/15372"}],"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=6364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}