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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 ...
Major publishers sue Florida over book ban law in schools. Orlando, Florida — On 16-year-old Jack Hayes' bookshelf you'll find books that may no longer be available in some Florida classrooms ...
Major book publishers have sued the US state of Florida over a law that allows schools to ban certain books from their student libraries. The lawsuit, filed on Thursday by publishers including ...
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.
September 2, 2024 at 8:35 AM. TAMPA, Fla. - Six major book publishers are now suing the state of Florida, over what they call an unconstitutional book ban. Top state education officials and school ...
ISBN. 978-0-7653-8556-7. Ban This Book is a 2017 children's novel by Alan Gratz. Inspired by a viral Internet story from the mid-2010s, it tells of an African-American North Carolina girl student's fight against book censorship. Published in 2017 to positive reviews, it became the subject of its own May 2024 ban in a Florida school district.
For the first time this year, the Florida Department of Education required the state’s public school districts to submit a list of challenged books to the department by June 30.
In 2003, the children's book The Family Book was removed from the curriculum of the Erie, Illinois school system due to the book's representation of same-sex families. Flowers for Algernon , a science fiction short story and subsequent novel written by Daniel Keyes , is on the American Library Association's list of the 100 Most Frequently ...