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Florida and Texas, by far, challenged the most books in 2023 with a combined total of more than 4,000 titles. A full map of what U.S. states are challenging books can be found online at the ALA's ...
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.
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 ...
A group of adults, whether it be parents or teachers, finds a book’s content to be so offensive that they call for it to be pulled from shelves, taken off syllabi or even banned entirely from ...
Banned Books Week is the product of a national alliance between organizations who strive to bring awareness to banned books. [118] 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".
The book follows a family as they attend a pride parade. The book won the 2015 Stonewall Book Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature, [1] [2] and in 2018, it was the tenth-most banned and challenged book in the United States. [3] [4]
It’s another provocative work by Hopkins, who had four books on the ALA’'s list of the top 100 banned or challenged books between 2010 and 2019. (21 bans) (21 bans) 10.
The American Library Association (ALA) reports that And Tango Makes Three was the most frequently challenged book from 2006 to 2010, and the second most frequently challenged in 2009. [2] [3] [4] Ultimately, it became the fourth-most challenged book between 2000 and 2009, [5] as well as the sixth-most challenged book between 2010 and 2019. [6]