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PEN America, a free speech advocacy group, found that book bans nearly tripled during the 2023-2024 academic year with over 10,000 books banned in public schools.
According to the American Library Association, 2022 saw the highest number of attempts to ban books since the organization began tracking in 2001. It was also a notable increase of 38% over 2021 ...
It would require school boards to ban books with content considered “harmful” under California Penal Code 313, which prohibits the material from being distributed to children.
This list of the most commonly challenged books in the United States refers to books sought to be removed or otherwise restricted from public access, typically from a library or a school curriculum. This list is primarily based on U.S. data gathered by the American Library Association 's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), which gathers data ...
More than a thousand book titles, most addressing racism and LGBTQ issues, have been banned from U.S. classrooms and school libraries in the last nine months, many under pressure from conservative ...
In 2003, the children's book The Family Book was removed from the curriculum of the Erie, Illinois school system due to the book's representation of same-sex families. Flowers for Algernon , a science fiction short story and subsequent novel written by Daniel Keyes , is on the American Library Association's list of the 100 Most Frequently ...
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 ...
Book bans are tanking sales of children's books. Schools and libraries aren't buying books about LGBTQ+ issues and race as they brace for culture war pushback. As children's book bans soar, sales ...