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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 Day in June: Gayle E. Pitman, illus ...
Banned in Boston, Massachusetts, Kansas City, Missouri, Camden, New Jersey, and other US cities, this novel by Sinclair focused on religiosity and hypocrisy in the United States during the 1920s by depicting a preacher (the Reverend Dr. Elmer Gantry) as a protagonist who preferred easy money, alcohol, and "enticing young girls" to saving souls ...
In 2023, a USA TODAY investigation revealed that a site called BookLooks.org was the resource behind hundreds of book challenges nationwide. Launched in 2022, the site promotes a book-rating ...
Katherine Mangu-Ward of Reason noted that the ALA's list of challenged and banned books "suggests book banners lean right—with an increasing emphasis on books with queer themes or characters, for example—though book challenges come from across the spectrum of political opinion and aesthetic preference.", but added that "It's debatable ...
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 Miami Herald, since July 2022, Florida has added more than 1,300 books to its book ban list, making it the state with the highest number of banned books. Texas came in second with ...
The library association, which has monitored attempted book bans since 1990, compiles data on challenges from two sources: reports from library professionals and news stories.
Books Unbanned is a United States library program that issues library cards nationwide from regional libraries in order to give electronic access to the library's digital and audio collections to teens and young adults living in U.S. locations where books are being challenged.