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Thanks to Lifelongreader who points out that there is a podcast on Jodi Picoult's web site which gives some background to Nineteen Minutes. Two of her novels have been challenged. The Pact which has been covered in an earlier post and Nineteen Minutes, her latest novel which was banned from the high school in her home town of Hanover.
The book has been pulled off the reading list at the local high school in Hanover, N.H., Picoult’s hometown. Picoult calls the school’s decision “crazy and really sad” and is making no apologies for this latest story. It comes following a year that saw a record number of school shootings across the U.S., seven of them fatal. “I subscribe to the theory that kids are a lot smarter than we give them credit for and that trying to protect them by pretending these issues don’t exist is not doing them any good,” said Picoult, 40, who has a teenaged son attending that school in Hanover.
School officials are concerned that the setting resembles the layout of the high school in Hanover and that students might find that traumatic.
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I’d like to extend a special hello and welcome to my new-found friends from the Toronto Reading Council and OISE with whom I spent a day this past weekend conferencing, sharing ideas and resources.
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Thanks to Lifelongreader who points out that there is a podcast on Jodi Picoult's web site which gives some background to Nineteen Minutes. Two of her novels have been challenged. The Pact which has been covered in an earlier post and Nineteen Minutes, her latest novel which was banned from the high school in her home town of Hanover.
School officials are concerned that the setting resembles the layout of the high school in Hanover and that students might find that traumatic.
Interesting. I actually just don't like Jodi Piccoult's books. I've read just one, so maybe that isn't fair, but it seems like in each one she chooses a different subject that will be emotionally gut-wrenching, and slightly improbable to the average reader, and writes a story around it. They all have "good read" and "book club" written all over them. They sort of strike me as the People Magazine of literature. They are compelling and pull you along, but will you respect yourself in the morning?
I haven't read any of them, but when I see that something has been banned, then I want to read it. Just to annoy the censor :) and encourage teh writer.