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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 ...
Judy Blume coming of age. Harry Potter J. K. Rowling witchcraft controversy. Mark Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. 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.
October 12, 2024 at 6:00 AM. Kuna school board trustees extended the interim superintendent’s contract, canceled school on Election Day and rejected a library book challenge. The contract ...
The Central York School District tops the list, having banned 441 books that almost entirely focused on titles related to people of color in a school board meeting on Nov. 9, 2020. The agenda ...
A 2023 analysis by The Washington Post found that a majority of book challenges in over 100 school districts from the 2021–2022 school year were filed by just 11 people. [30] Based on a survey by PEN, about 10,000 books were banned from US schools by Republican-led censorship laws in the 2023/2024 academic year.
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. Initially established by the Brooklyn Public Library, it was created ...
Here are 15 books PEN America says were most frequently banned in the first part of the 2022-23 school year. 1. “Gender Queer: A Memoir” by Maia Kobabe. This bestselling 2019 autobiography in ...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) Lewis Carroll. Children's Novel/Adventure. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was banned in the province of Hunan, China by the KMT 's government, beginning in 1931, due to its portrayal of anthropomorphized animals which act with the same level of complexity as human beings.