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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 ...
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 ...
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.
Sept. 22-28 is Banned Books Week. See a list of the top 10 most challenged books, and which state had the most in 2023.
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.
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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 ...
Since then numerous other schools and libraries have also banned the book, [3] and it ranks #87 on the American Library Association's list of the most frequently challenged books of the 1990s. [4] In the 1997 special edition re-release of the book, the beach scene was slightly edited and the topless woman is wearing a bikini top. [5] [6]