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It's A Book: Lane Smith: 2010 32 — — It's Perfectly Normal: Robie Harris: Nudity, sex education, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group. Additional reasons: "alleges it is child pornography" 1994 22 12 13 It's So Amazing: Robie Harris: Sex education, sexual content 1999 — 37 — Jack: A. M. Homes: LGBT themes and references to divorce ...
Ahead of Banned Book Week, the Rutherford County Board of Education voted to remove six books from public school libraries including Toni Morrison's "Beloved" and "Wicked."
Banned in the UK 1985–1988 for revealing secrets. Wright was a former MI5 intelligence officer and his book was banned before it was even published in 1987. [274] [275] Lord Horror: David Britton: 1990 1991 1992 Novel Banned in England in 1991 where it was found obscene; it is currently the last book to be banned in the UK.
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 ...
‘It’s Perfectly Normal’ These 20 books often make annual lists of most banned books due to their content. Page, of Moms for Liberty, said most of the challenges were sent to high schools, a ...
Many organizations, like the Tennessee Association of School Librarians, Tennessee Library Association, and Friends of the Tennessee Libraries have spoken out against the school board and Thurman, citing that, "students' 'freedom to read and unfettered access to information is protected by their First Amendment rights". [103]
Banned Books Week this year is from Sept. 22-28. It's usually held during the last week of September. The theme of this year's event, according to the ALA, is " Freed Between the Lines ."
Banned Books Week is the product of a national alliance between organizations who strive to bring awareness to banned books. [117] 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".