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The Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling was the most challenged work from 2000 to 2009. Its topics relating to things such as witchcraft have generated controversy. The second oldest works featured on the list were written by Mark Twain. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) is often challenged for its language and discussion of racism.
Outcome. Banning of thousands of books from school libraries in many states. Starting in 2021, there have been a considerable number of books banned or challenged in parts of the United States. Most of the targeted books have to do with race, gender, and sexuality. Unlike most book challenges in the past, whereby parents or other stakeholders ...
Banned from distribution to readers below the age of 19 through schools, libraries and book stores in 2024 by the South Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. The book was reported to authorities as part of a campaign against books on sex education.
The debut book by a Santa Rosa illustrator, “ Gender Queer ” has become the most banned book in America, a target of school boards, conservative candidates, preachers and parental groups who ...
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 ...
PEN America, a nonprofit that advocates for freedom of expression, counted 3,362 instances of book titles being banned in schools in the 2022-23 school year, including 43 in Wisconsin, ...
In 2017, the book was ranked number 8 on the American Library Association’s top ten challenge and banned books list. The book was also banned by school officials in Katy, Texas. It was challenged for its “pervasive vulgarity and racially-insensitive language”.
The state school board released its first list of banned books this month, which includes a popular young adult novel series by author Sarah J. Maas called “A Court of Thorns and Roses” and ...