Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Despite the opposition from the American Library Association (ALA), books continue to be banned by school and public libraries across the United States. This is usually the result of complaints from parents, who find particular books not appropriate for their children (e.g., books with depictions of LGBTQ+ individuals, like Gender Queer: A Memoir).
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. This list is primarily based on U.S. data gathered by the American Library Association 's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), which gathers data ...
Banned Books Museum; Book burning; List of book-burning incidents; Nazi book burnings; Burning of books and burying of scholars; Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parlament of England; Index Librorum Prohibitorum; List of most commonly challenged books in the United States
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky. Published 25 years ago, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a seminal classic of young adult literature. In a series of letters to an unknown ...
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.
A PEN America list shows 300 titles were removed from school libraries across 11 Missouri districts after lawmakers in 2022 banned “sexually explicit” material, punishable by up to a year in ...
The New York Times reported in January 2022 that "parents, activists, school board officials and lawmakers around the country are challenging books at a pace not seen in decades". [21] In April 2022, nonprofit organization PEN America found that 1,586 book bans targeting 1,145 unique books had occurred in the past nine months. [22]
"The Handmaid's Tale" and "1984" are both on the American Library Association's Top 100 Most Banned and Challenged Books: 2010-2019 online list. "The Handmaid's Tale" was the seventh most ...