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In 2020, All American Boys landed the third position on the American Library Association's list of the most commonly banned and challenged books in the United States. [20] The book was banned, challenged, and/or restricted "for profanity, drug use, and alcoholism, and because it was thought to promote anti-police views, contain divisive topics ...
All Boys Aren't Blue is a young adult non-fiction "memoir-manifesto" by journalist and activist George M. Johnson, [1] published April 28, 2020, by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The book consists of a series of essays following Johnson's journey growing up as a queer Black man in Plainfield, New Jersey , [ 2 ] and Virginia.
Jason Reynolds, co-author of All American Boys, said the bans were more about parents "doing everything they can to shield young people from the things that scare them, not things that scare the children". [8] In many cases, bans on certain books led to increased sales of those books, such as works by Jerry Craft, Toni Morrison, and Adam Rapp. [25]
George M. Johnson's "All Boys Aren't Blue" is the latest target for book banning at Eastern Shore of Maryland schools and beyond.
All Boys Aren’t Blue is aimed at readers 14 years of age or older and has been challenged for its sexually explicit LGBTQ content. It was the second-most-banned book of the 2021-22 school year ...
Florida’s decision to ban the AP's course on African American studies comes less than a year after the state passed HB 7, dubbed the "Stop W.O.K.E. Act." "No one is trying to washout or erase ...
Since 2001, the American Library Association has posted the top ten most frequently challenged books per year on their website. [4] Using the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century, ALA has also noted banned and challenged classics. [5] The ALA does not claim comprehensiveness in recording challenges.
All American Boys; All Boys Aren't Blue; All Quiet on the Western Front; Almost Perfect (novel) American Psycho; An-Nubūgh al-Maghribī fī al-Adab al-'Arabī; The Anarchist Cookbook; And Tango Makes Three; Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging; Animal Farm; Annie on My Mind; Another Country (novel) Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. An ...