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It was one of 10 books the West Ada School District had removed from libraries earlier in the school year. Bub did not take the book. Jenkins dropped it at his feet and walked off the stage ...
The book has drawn criticism for its explicitness and has drawn calls to ban it from school libraries. Hardy acknowledged that Morrison’s book has “cultural value” in its exploration of the ...
The group previously documented 3,362 instances of book bans in the 2022–2023 school year. "With 10,000 school book bans and counting in the 2023-2024 school, we have to take stock of the harm ...
The Things They Carried: Tim O'Brien: Violence, animal abuse, obscene language, and criticism of the Vietnam War 1990 34 65 — Thirteen Reasons Why: Jay Asher: Drugs/alcohol/smoking, sexually explicit, suicide, unsuited for age group 2007 3 — — This Book Is Gay: Juno Dawson: LGBTQIA+ content, provides sexual education 2014 53 — — This ...
Banned Books Week is the product of a national alliance between organizations who strive to bring awareness to banned books. [118] Founded by first amendment and library activist Judy Krug and the Association of American Publishers in 1982, the event aims to bring banned books "to the attention of the American public".
Alabama's SBOE banned the teaching of concepts that impute fault, blame, a tendency to oppress others, or the need to feel guilt or anguish to persons solely because of their race or sex.” [6] Georgia's SBOE banned teaching that "indoctrinates" students. Florida's SBOE prohibited teaching about critical race theory or the 1619 Project. [6]
PEN America, a free expression advocacy group, has tracked nearly 16,000 book ban attempts in public schools nationwide since 2021. In 2023 alone, the American Library Association (ALA) documented ...
A Washington Post analysis of 986 books challenged in school libraries between 2021 and 2022 found that nearly 42% of the books challenged had LGBTQ+ themes or characters and 28% had characters of ...