Challenged Books

Finding Challenged Books

News organizations have lots of articles about instances of book challenges and book bans. They're a great resource to learn about books that are being challenged right now.

Freedom to Read keeps a list of frequently challenged books in Canada. They also do lots of advocacy work to protect intellectual freedom.

PEN America does a lot of work to track book challenges and book bans. They're American, but many of the books they mention are also challenged in Canada.

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Use the "Search" function. You can look things up by keyword, title, author, etc.

Find out more about this book and why it was challenged

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