Library Books

State Bills & Legislation 

• HB 385: "...This bill would provide that these criminal obscenity laws do not apply to college or university libraries or their employees or agents, but do apply to public libraries, public school libraries, and their employees or agents..." 

School Library Books

• Mat-Su (2024) 

  • List of Challenged Books from April 2023 

    • The Lovely Bones (retained)

    • Lucky (challenged)

    • Call Me By Your Name (removed)

    • You (a novel) (removed)

    • Red, White and Royal Blue (challenged)

    • It Ends with Us (removed)

    • Ugly Love (removed)

    • Verity (removed)

    • Red Hood (challenged)

    • Living Dead Girl (challenged)

    • Crank (challenged)

    • Identical (challenged)

    • Perfect (challenged)

    • Tilt (challenged)

    • Tricks (challenged)

    • The Freedom Writers Diary (challenged)

    • Wicked: the life and times of the Wicked Witch of the West (challenged)

    • Exit Here (challenged)

    • Breathless (challenged)

    • The Haters (challenged)

    • The Carnival at Bray (challenged)

    • Nineteen Minutes (challenged)

    • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (challenged)

    • Forever (challenged)

    • Kite Runner (graphic novel) (challenged)

    • Kite Runner (retained)

    • The Duff (challenged)

    • Slaughterhouse Five (challenged)

    • I Never (challenged)

    • L8r, g8r (challenged)

    • Shine (challenged)

    • YOLO (challenged)

    • Last Night at the Telegraph Club (challenged)

    • The Handmaid's Tale (challenged)

    • This One Summer (challenged)

    • Persepolis (retained)

    • Persepolis 2 (challenged)

    • How Beautiful the Ordinary (challenged)

    • Flamer (retained)

    • Sex: an uncensored guide (challenged)

    • Sold (retained)

    • Drama (graphic novel) (retained)

    • The Handmaid's Tale (graphic novel) (challenged)

    • It's Perfectly Normal (challenged)

    • Water for Elephants (challenged)

    • A Court of Thorns and Roses (retained)

    • Court of Frost and Starlight (retained)

    • Court of Mist and Fury (removed)

    • Court of Silver Flames (removed)

    • Court of Wings Ruin (retained)

    • Empire of Storms (challenged)

    • Kingdom of Ash (challenged)

    • The Perks of Being a Wallflower (retained)

    • Monday's Not Coming (challenged)

    • The Bluest Eye (challenged)

    • Homegoing (challenged)

• Ketchikan 

  • Red Hood (retained) 

  • What Girls Are Made Of (retained) 

State Bills & Legislation 

School Library Books 

State Bills & Legislation 

• SB1007: "...except as prescribed in section 15-711, a public school in this state may not refer students to or use any sexually explicit material in any manner. Materials may be exempted from the provisions of subsection A if all of the following requirements are met: The exempted material possesses serious educational value for minors or possesses serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value. The public school requires written parental consent before the public school refers a student to or uses the exempted material.  The public school shall require parental consent on a per-material basis. The public school provides students for whom parental consent is not secured under paragraph 2 of this subsection with an alternative assignment that does not contain sexually explicit material..."

School Library Books 

• Ketchikan School Board 

  • Red Hood (retained) 

State Bills & Legislation 

• Act 372 of 2023 

  • Lawsuit brought by current public school students against Act 372 of 2023 

School Library Books 

• San Ramon Valley Unified School District 

  • Challenge and retention of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 

  • Book: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 

State Bills & Legislation 

School Library Books 

• Elizabeth School District (2024) 

  • The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas (removed for review) 

  • Thirteen Reasons Why, by Jay Asher (removed for review) 

  • Pride: Championing LGBTQ Rights, by Rebecca Felix (removed for review) 

  • You Should See Me in a Crown, by Leah Johnson (removed for review) 

  • It’s Your World — If You Don’t Like It, Change It, by Mikki Halpin (removed for review) 

  • The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini (removed for review) 

  • Beloved, by Toni Morrison (removed for review) 

  • The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison (removed for review) 

  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky (removed for review) 

  • Looking for Alaska, by John Green (removed for review) 

  • Nineteen Minutes, by Jodi Picoult (removed for review) 

  • Speak, by Laurie Anderson (removed for review) 

  • Identical, by Ellen Hopkins (removed for review) 

  • Fallout, by Ellen Hopkins (removed for review) 

  • Glass, by Ellen Hopkins (removed for review) 

  • Burned, by Ellen Hopkins (removed for review) 

  • Crank, by Ellen Hopkins (removed for review) 

  • Smoke, by Ellen Hopkins (removed for review) 

  • George, by Alex Gino (removed for review) 

• Greeley-Evans School District 6 (2024) 

  • The God of Small Things (retained) 

State Bills & Legislation 

• Freedom to Read Bill (2024) 

  • SB 049

• Standards for Decisions Regarding Library Resources (Senate Bill 216, 2024) 

School Library Books

• Brookfield (2024) 

  • Media Coverage 

    • School board weighing challenge to the  book Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic 

  • Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (retained) 

• Milford Public Schools 

  • Heartstopper (series) (challenged) 

State Bills & Legislation 

School Library Books 

State Bills & Legislation 

School Library Books 

• Alachua County School Board (2024) 

  • Retention of Melissa in Elementary School Libraries 

  • Melissa (retained)

  • The Sun and Her Flowers (banned) 

  • Haunted (banned) 

  • It Feels Good to Be Yourself (retained) 

  • Fade (possibly challenged awaiting jurisdictional approval) 

  • Empire of Storms (possibly challenged awaiting jurisdictional approval) 

  • Pet (retained) 

  • Freedom Writers' Diary (retained) 

  • Water for Elephants (retained) 

  • You Don't Know Everything Jilly P (retained) 

  • The Ship We Built (retained) 

  • Ana on Edge (retained) 

  • Marvin Redpost - Is He a Girl? (retained) 

  • Ninteen Minuets (retained) 

• Brevard County School District (2024, 2025) 

  • A Court of Thorns and Roses

  • The Nowhere Girls (removed) 

  • People Kill People (removed) 

  • Damsel (removed) 

  • Sasaki and Miyano, Vol. 1. (removed)

  • Last Night at the Telegraph Club (removed) 

  • Breathless (removed)

  • Out of Darkness (removed)

• Collier County

• Duval County (2023) 

  • Identical (2023) 

• Escambia County 

  • And Tango Makes Three -> legal action followed removal of the book  

  • Allegedly (retained) 

  • Beetle and the Hollowbones (retained) 

  • Better Nate Than Ever (retained) 

  • Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope (retained) 

  • Calvin (retained) 

  • Flor Fights Back: A Stonewall Riots Survival Story (retained) 

  • GLBTQ: The Survival Guide for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Teens (retained) 

  • Hurricane Child (retained) 

  • Julián at the Wedding (retained) 

  • Maiden & Princess (retained) 

  • Melissa (retained) 

  • Milo Imagines the World (retained) 

  • My Rainbow (retained) 

  • Same-Sex Parents (retained) 

  • That’s Betty!: The Story of Betty White (retained) 

  • The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James (retained) 

  • The Whispers (retained) 

  • The Witch Boy (retained) 

  • This One Summer (retained) 

  • This Would Make a Good Story Someday (retained) 

  • Too Bright to See (removed) 

  • Two Boys Kissing (retained) 

  • Uncle Bobby’s Wedding (retained) 

  • We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide (retained) 

• Indian River County School District (2024) 

  • Ban This Book (removed) 

• Hernando County School District (2024) 

  • • All American Boys (retained)

    • Fade (removed)

    • All the Things We Do in the Dark (removed)  

    • It's So Amazing! (removed) 

    • Perks of Being a Wallflower (removed) 

    • Thirteen Reasons Why (removed) 

    • The Handmaid's Tale (removed) 

    • This Day in June (removed) 

    • Push (removed) 

    • The Hate U Give (removed) 

    • Beloved (removed) 

    • The Court of Frost and Starlight (removed) 

    • The Lovely Bones (removed) 

    • The Handmaid's Tale: Graphic Novel (removed) 

    • Sold (removed) 

    • The Black Friend (removed) 

    • Kite Runner (removed) 

    • The Truth about Alice (removed) 

    • Beyond Magenta (removed) 

    • Dime (removed) 

    • The Haters (removed) 

    • Life is Funny (removed) 

    • Cemetery Boys (removed) 

    • Damsel (removed) 

    • Forever (removed) 

    • Queen of Shadows (removed) 

    • Nineteen Minutes (removed) 

    • Kingdom of Ash (removed) 

    • Tower of Dawn (removed) 

    • Felix Ever After (removed) 

    • House of Earth and Blood (removed) 

    • Little and Lion (removed) 

    • Homegoing (removed) 

    • Beautiful (removed) 

    • A Court of Thorns and Roses (removed) 

    • Man O War (removed) 

    • Red Hood (removed) 

    • Chosen (removed) 

    • Opposite of Innocent (removed) 

    • Boy Toy (removed) 

  • Nassau County Schools (2024) 

    • Ghost Boys (removed under “lack of circulation”)

    • Almost Perfect (removed under “lack of circulation”)

    • All American Boys (retained) 

    • Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out (retained) 

    • Crank (retained) 

    • Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda (retained) 

    • Drama (retained) 

    • Eleanor & Park (retained) 

    • I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (retained) 

    • Identical (retained) 

    • If I Was Your Girl (retained) 

    • Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (retained) 

    • Real Live Boyfriends (retained) 

    • The Bluest Eye (retained) 

    • The Clan of the Cave Bear (retained) 

    • The Haters (retained) 

    • The Poet X (retained) 

    • The Truth About Alice (retained) 

    • Thirteen Reasons Why (retained) 

    • This One Summer (retained) 

    • Tricks (retained) 

    • Unravel Me (retained) 

    • The Perks of Being a Wallflower (retained) 

    • A Court of Mist and Fury (returned but requires parental permission for students under 18) 

    • A Court of Thorns and Roses (returned but requires parental permission for students under 18) 

    • Beloved (returned but requires parental permission for students under 18) 

    • Dreaming in Cuban (returned but requires parental permission for students under 18) 

    • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (returned but requires parental permission for students under 18) 

    • Lucky (returned but requires parental permission for students under 18) 

    • Nineteen Minutes (returned but requires parental permission for students under 18) 

    • The Almost Moon (returned but requires parental permission for students under 18) 

    • The Hate U Give (returned but requires parental permission for students under 18) 

    • The Infinite Moment of Us (returned but requires parental permission for students under 18) 

    • The Kite Runner (returned but requires parental permission for students under 18) 

    • Water for Elephants (returned but requires parental permission for students under 18) 

  • Pasco County Schools 

    • The Letter Q (challenged) 

  • Pinellas County School District (2024) 

    • Invisible Monsters (removed) 

    • Gender Queer (removed in 2021) 

  • St. Johns County School District (2025) 

    • Nineteen Minutes (restricted for 9-12 graders or by permission) 

    • Strange Truth (restricted for 9-12 graders or by permission) 

    • Tower of Dawn (restricted for 9-12 graders or by permission) 

    • Half of a Yellow Sun (restricted for 9-12 graders or by permission) 

    • Storm and Fury (restricted for 9-12 graders or by permission) 

    • Normal People (restricted for 9-12 graders or by permission) 

State Bills & Legislation

•  HB 1069

School Library Books 

• Cobb County School District (2024, 2025) 

  • American Psycho (removed) 

  • Lucky (removed) 

  • It Ends with Us (removed) 

  • Thirteen Reasons Why (removed) 

  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower (removed) 

  • The Summer of Todd Owen (challenged) 

  • More Happy Thank Not (removed: sexually explicit) 

  • This Book is Gay (removed: sexually explicit) 

  • We Know It Was You (removed: sexually explicit) 

  • The Sun & Her Flowers (removed: sexually explicit) 

  • City of Saints & Thieves (removed: sexually explicit) 

  • A Court of Wings and Ruin (removed: sexually explicit) 

  • A Court of Thorns and Roses (removed: sexually explicit) 

  • A Court of Mist and Fury (removed: sexually explicit) 

  • A Court of Frost and Starlight (removed: sexually explicit) 

  • A Court of Silver Flames (removed: sexually explicit) 

  • Ironfire (removed: sexually explicit) 

  • Laid edited by Shannon Teresa Boodram (removed) 

  • Crank (removed) 

  • Tricks (removed) 

  • Push (removed) 

  • Milk and Honey (removed) 

  • It Starts with Us (removed) 

  • The Infinite Moment of Us (removed) 

  • The Casual Vacancy (removed) 

  • Identical (removed) 

  • All Boys Aren’t Blue (removed) 

  • Juliet Takes a Breath (removed) 

  • Monday’s Not Coming (removed) 

  • City of Thieves (removed) 

  • Me, Earl, and the Dying Girl (removed) 

  • Flamer (removed) 

  • Blankets (removed) 

  • Triangles (removed) 

  • A Stolen Life (removed) 

State Bills & Legislation 

• SB154: To amend Part 3 of Article 3 of Chapter 12 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia  Annotated, relating to sale or distribution of harmful materials to minors, so as to provide that the provisions of Code Section 16-12-103 shall be applicable to libraries operated by schools; to provide that violations of Code Section 16-12-103 or 16-12-104 shall be misdemeanors of a high and aggravated nature when committed knowingly; to provide for a defense; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

School Library Books 

State Bills & Legislation 

School Library Books 

• Coeur d’Alene School District

  • Looking for more clarity regarding which removed books were library books v. curriculum related books

• Lakeland Joint School District 272 

  • The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle (removed) 

State Bills & Legislation 

• HB 710 (2025) 

• SF 496 (2025) -> currently in litigation 

• SB 1289 (2024) -> regulating 'pornographic' materials in school and public libraries 

School Library Books 

State Bills & Legislation 

School Library Books 

• Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp. 

  • People Kill People (retained) 

  • Push (retained) 

• Carmel Clay 

  • All Boys Aren't Blue (retained) 

• Munster School Board 

  • It's Christmas, David (retained) 

• New Prairie School Board 

  • The Poet X (retained) 

  • Friction (retained) 

  • Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (retained) 

  • Smoke (retained) 

  • Glass (retained) 

  • Impulse (retained) 

  • Burned (retained) 

  • Crank (retained) 

• North Gibson School Corporation (2025) 

  • Ready Player One (retained) 

State Bills & Legislation 

School Library Books 

• Dubuque Schools (2024) 

  • “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “The Haters” by Jesse Andrews  (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “Damsel” by Elana Arnold  (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “Red Hood” by Elana Arnold  (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “What Girls Are Made Of” by Elana Arnold  (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “13 Reasons Why” by Jay Asher  (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood  (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “Black Girl Unlimited” by Echo Brown  (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Steven Chbosky  (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “Flamer” by Mike Curato  (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” by Jonathan Safran Foer (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “Looking for Alaska” by John Green (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “Impulse” by Ellen Hopkins (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “Ulysses” by James Joyce (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “The Sun and Her Flowers” by Rupi Kaur (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “Milk and Honey” by Rupi Kaur (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “Gender Queer” by Maia Kobabe (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “The Last Night at the Telegraph Club” by Matinda Lo (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “A Court of Mist and Fury” by Sarah Maas (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “A Court of Frost and Starlight” by Sarah Maas (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “A Court of Wings and Ruin” by Sarah Maas (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “A Court of Thorns and Roses” by Sarah Maas (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “Empire of Storms” by Sarah Maas (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “Tower of Dawn” by Sarah Maas (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “Wicked” by Gregory Maguire (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “Sold” by Patricia McCormick (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “The Female of the Species” by Mindy McGinnies (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “Red, White, and Royal Blue” by Casey McQuiston (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “Beloved” by Toni Morrison (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “The Infinite Moment of Us” by Lauren Myracle (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “Like a Love Story” by Abdi Nazemian (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “Breathless” by Jennifer Niven (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “Out of Darkness” by Ashley Perez (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “Nineteen Minutes” by Jodi Picoult (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “When I Was Puerto Rican” by Esmerelda Santiago (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “Push” by Sapphire (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “Lucky” by Alice Sebold (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “Glass Castle” by Jeanette Walls (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “Native Son” by Richard Wright (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “Slaughterhouse Five” by Kurt Vonnegut (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “Ivy-Aberdeen’s Letter to the World” by Ashley Herring Blake (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “One True Way” by Shannon Hitchcock (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “Jacob’s Room to Choose” by Sarah and Ian Hoffman (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “Totally Joe” by James Howe (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “The Breakaways” by Cathy G. Johnson (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “This Day in June” by Gayle Pitman (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “Sewing the Rainbow” by Gayle Pitman (removed due to Senate File 496) 

  • “My Maddy” by Gayle Pitman (removed due to Senate File 496) 

State Bills & Legislation 

• HF 2040: "...This bill repeals, which relates to obscenity exemptions for public libraries and educational institutions..."

• SF2176: "In Act relating to obscenity, including the exposure of a minor to an obscene performance and admittance of a minor to a premises with obscene performances, establishing a private civil cause of action, and providing penalties.

School Library Books 

• Gardner Edgerton School District (2025) 

  • Lily and Dunkin (removed) 

• Johnson County Public Schools 

  • Lily and Dunkin (removed) 

State Bills & Legislation 

• SB 358 (2024) -> increases the number of community members engaged in the challenge process and precludes the removal of books for political or partisan motivations

• HB 2700 (2024) -> would create a book rating system  

Library Books 

State Bills & Legislation 

School Library Books 

State Bills & Legislation 

• HB545: "Provides relative to certain materials in public school libraries" 

School Library Books

• Maine School Administrative District No. 6 (2024) 

  • Gender Queer (retained) 

• Maine School Administrative District No. 44 (2024) 

  • Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (retained) 

State Bills & Legislation 

School Library Books 

• Baltimore County (2024) 

  • Books: Lawn Boy and Gender Queer

  • Stated reason for challenges: obscene and pornographic, specifically depictions of oral sex

• Carroll County (2024) 

  • Media Coverage 

    • 39 books to be reviewed 

    • School board votes to remove 9 books  

  • Empire of Storms (removed) 

  • The Duff (removed) 

  • The Handmaid's Tale (retained) 

  • Looking for Alaska (retained) 

  • The Carnival at Bray (retained) 

• Frederick County (2024) 

  • 35 books flagged or challenged due to sexually explicit material 

    • Lucky by Alice Sebold (removed for being factually inaccurate)

    •  Crank (retained only for high schools) 

    • Empire Storms (retained only for high schools) 

    • Triangle  (removed)

• Howard County (2024) 

  • 46 books being challenged stated reason for (possible) challenges: sexually explicit material 

• Wicomico County (2024) 

  • Book: All Boys Aren't Blue 

    • Books were not challenged by parents. Librarians removed the books after realizing the graphic nature of some parts of the book. 

• Worcester County (2024) 

  • Book: All Boys Aren't Blue 

    • Challenged for the sexually explicit nature of the book. 

State Bills & Legislation 

• Freedom to Read Act (2024) 

School Library Books 

State Bills & Legislation 

• Companion bills to ensure books are not removed from schools or libraries due to personal and/or political motivations (2024) 

  • House Bill 4229 

  • Senate Bill 2528 

School Library Books 

• Portage Public Schools 

  • The Breadwinner (retained) 

State Bills & Legislation 

School Library Books 

• St. Louis Park (2024) opt-out process for LGBTQ+ character books 

• Osseo School Board (2024)

  • Media: Fun Home will remain in the library 

  • Book: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (retained)  

State Bills & Legislation 

• HF2683 & SF2434: "...It is in the best interest of the health, welfare, and safety of the citizens of this state, and especially of minors within the state, that commercial dissemination, and dissemination without monetary consideration in a place of public accommodation, of sexually explicit written, photographic, printed, sound or published materials, and of plays, dances, or other exhibitions presented before an audience, that are deemed harmful to minors, be restricted to persons over the age of 17 years; or, if available to minors under the age of 18 years, that the availability of the materials be restricted to sources within established and recognized schools, churches, museums, medical clinics and physicians, hospitals, or public libraries..."

School Library Books 

State Bills & Legislation 

School Library Books 

• St. Joseph School District (2024) 

  • The Bluest Eye (challenged)

  • Looking for Alaska (retained)

  • All Boys Aren't Blue (challenged)

  • If I Was Your Girl (challenged)

  • Crank (retained)

  • Tricks (retained) 

  • Thirteen Reasons Why (retained)

  • And Tango Makes Three (challenged)

  • The ABCs of LGBTQ+ (challenged)

  • This Book is Anti-Racist (retained)

• Wentzville School District (2024, 2025) 

  • The Bluest Eye (removed) 

  • Sold (removed) 

State Bills & Legislation 

School Library Books 

• Laurel Public Schools (2024) 

  • School board reviewing challenged books 

    • The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School (removed) 

    • Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American (challenged) 

    • A Million Quiet Revolutions (removed) 

    • Assassination Classroom: Book 4 (removed) 

    • Kasher in the Rye (challenged) 

State Bills & Legislation 

School Library Books 

State Bills & Legislation 

• Prohibition of Sexually Explicit Materials in School Libraries 

School Library Books 

State Bills & Legislation 

School Library Books 

State Bills & Legislation 

• HB 1419

  • Intended to ban the books that are harmful to minors 

School Library Books 

• North Hunterdon-Voorhees High School 

  • Let's Talk About It (retained) 

State Bills & Legislation 

• SB 2421 -> requires school boards to have a policy for challenged library books, ensure challengers are invested in the community, mandate challenged books remain on the shelf during the challenge process, and engage members of the school community to participate in the review process. 

School Library Books 

• Las Cruces Public Schools (2024) 

  • Media 

    • Coverage of challenge to Jack of Hearts 

    • Coverage of challenge to A Court of Silver Flames 

  • Book: Jack of Hearts (and other parts) and A Court of Silver Flames 

State Bills & Legislation 

• House Bill 123 (2024)

School Library Books 

• Penfield School District (2025) 

  • The Rainbow Parade (challenge in progress) 

• Watertown School District (2024) 

State Bills & Legislation 

School Library Books 

• Buncombe County (2024) 

  • Book: Tricks (removed) 

• Catawba County Schools (2024) 

  • Dissolution of challenge to two books 

    • The Carnival at Bray (challenged)

    • L8r, g8r (challenged) 

    • Nineteen Minutes (retained) 

• Guilford County Schools (2025) 

  • And Tango Makes Three (challenged)

• New Hanover County Schools (2023, 2025) 

  • Stamped (removed)

  • Blended (challenged) 

• Wake County Schools (2025) 

  • The Kite Runner (retained) 

State Bills & Legislation 

School Library Books 

State Bills & Legislation 

School Library Books 

• Mentor School District 

  • Right Now: Real Kids Speaking up for Change (retained) 

  • Empire of Storms (retained) 

• Troy City Schools 

State Bills & Legislation 

School Library Books 

• Edmond Public Schools (2024) 

  • Oklahoma State Department of Education forced the Edmond Public Schools to remove two books 

  • Books: The Glass Castle, The Kite Runner 

State Bills & Legislation 

School Library Books 

• Grants Pass School District 7 (2024) 

  • All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson (banned) 

  • Lucky by Alice Sebold (banned)

• Seaside School District 

  • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (challenged) 

State Bills & Legislation 

• Senate Bill 1583 

  • Official bill summary: Prohibits discrimination when selecting textbooks, instructional materials, program materials or library books that are used in the public schools of this state.

  • Passage of in the State Senate 

School Library Books 

• Nazareth Area School District 

  • Push (retained) 

• Perkiomen Valley School District 

  • Gender Queer (removed) 

• Souderton Area School District 

• South Middleton School District 

  • All Boys Aren't Blue (challenged) 

  • Last Night at the Telegraph Club (challenged) 

• South Western School District 

  • Flamer (removed) 

• Transylvania County Schools' 

  • Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (challenged and retained) 

  • Sold (challenged and retained) 

  • This Book is Gay (challenged and retained) 

  • A Court of Mist and Fury (challenged and retained) 

  • Looking for Alaska (challenged and retained)  

  • The Truth About Alice (challenged) 

• Radnor School District (2025) 

  • Gender Queer (returned) 

  • Blankets (returned) 

  • Fun Home (returned) 

• Warwick School District 

State Bills & Legislation 

School Library Books 

State Bills & Legislation 

School Library Books  

• Beaufort (2024) (h/t JDM) 

  • 97 books challenged by two parents. 5 removed and 92 returned to school library shelves 

  • Media Coverage 

  • Books removed: Beautiful, Forever for a Year, It Ends With Us, The Haters, Nineteen Minutes

  • Perks of Being a Wallflower (banned) 

  • All Boys Aren't Blue (banned) 

  • Flamer (banned) 

  • Push (banned) 

  • Damsel (banned) 

  • Ugly Love (banned) 

  • A Court of Frost and Starlight (banned) 

  • A Court of Mist and Fury (banned) 

  • A Court of Thorns and Roses (banned) 

  • A Court of Wings and Ruin (banned) 

  • Normal People (banned) 

• Dorchester District 2 

  • Dorchester citizen has crafted a spreadsheet of 155 library books for reviews that are not aligned with state obscenity laws 

• Greenville County School Board (2024) 

  • Perfect (removed) 

  • Tilt (removed) 

  • Empire of Storms (removed) 

• Horry County Schools (2024) 

  • Crown of Midnight (removed) 

  • Freedom Writers Diary (removed) 

  • Assassination Classroom (challenged) 

• Lexington-Richland Five School District (2024, 2025) 

  • The Curse of King Tut’s Tomb 

  • I Am Billie Jean King (removed) 

• Spartanburg County School District 

  • Perks of Being a Wallflower (removed) 

  • The Handmaid's Tale (removed) 

  • Slaughterhouse-Five (removed) 

State Bills & Legislation 

• State Board of Education Book Suitability Regulations 

• School Libraries - Regulation 43-170 

  • South Carolina Department of Education will make decisions about library books by regulating the two-prong approach school boards use when determining a book's suitability for inclusion. 

• Statewide book bans 

  • Collateral  (2025) by Ellen Hopkins

  • Last Night at the Telegraph Club (2025) by Malinda Lo

  • Empire of Storms (2025) by Sarah J. Maas

  • Half of a Yellow Sun (2025) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  • Hopeless (2025) by Colleen Hoover

  • Identical (2025) by Ellen Hopkins

  • Kingdom of Ash (2025) by Sarah J. Maas

  • Living Dead Girl (2025) by Elizabeth Scott

  • Lucky (2025) by Alice Sebold

  • Tricks (2025) by Ellen Hopkins

  • Damsel (2025 by Elana K. Arnold

  • Ugly Love (2025 by Colleen Hoover

  • A Court of Frost and Starlight (2025) by Sarah J. Maas

  • A Court of Mist and Fury (2025) by Sarah J. Maas

  • A Court of Thorns and Roses (2025) by Sarah J. Maas

  • A Court of Wings and Ruin (2025)by Sarah J. Maas

  • Normal People (2025) by Sally Rooney

  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2025) by Stephen Chbosky

  • All Boys Aren’t Blue (2025) by George M. Johnson

  • Flamer (2025) by Mike Curato

  • Push (2025) by Sapphire

School Library Books 

State Bills & Legislation 

School Library Books 

• Blount County (2025) 

  • A Stolen Life (challenged) 

• Knox County Public Schools (2024) 

  • Me, Earl & The Dying Girl by Jessee Andrews (removed) 

  • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (removed) 

  • Go Ask Alice by Anonymous (removed) 

  • Chopsticks by Jessica Anthony (removed) 

  • 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher (removed) 

  • Girls on the Verge by Sharon Biggs Waller (removed) 

  • There's Going to Be a Baby by John Burningham (removed) 

  • Draw Me A Star by Eric Carle (removed) 

  • Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (removed) 

  • Just Listen by Sarah Dessen (removed) 

  • A Stolen Life by Jaycee Duggar (removed) 

  • The Carnival of Bray by JessieAnn Foley (removed) 

  • In A Glass Grimmly by Adam Gimwitz (removed) 

  • Lighter Than My Shadow by Katie Green (removed) 

  • Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (removed) 

  • Locke and Key: Alpha and Omega by Joe Hill (removed) 

  • Locke and Key: Clockworks by Joe Hill (removed) 

  • Locke and Key: Welcome to Lovecraft by Joe Hill (removed) 

  • Identical by Ellen Hopkins (removed) 

  • Tricks by Ellen Hopkins (removed) 

  • The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (removed) 

  • Attack on Titan Vol. 2 by Hajime Isayama (removed) 

  • Grown by Tiffany Jackson (removed) 

  • DUFF by Kody Keplinger (removed) 

  • The Walking Dead: Book Ten by Robert Kirkman (removed) 

  • Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe (removed) 

  • Monstress Vol. 2: the Blood by Marjorie Liu (removed) 

  • Late Night at the Telegraph Club by Malina Lo (removed) 

  • Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas (removed) 

  • Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas (removed) 

  • The Way We Work by David Macaulay (removed) 

  • Wicked by Gregory Maguire (removed) 

  • Sold by Patricia Morrison (removed) 

  • The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (removed) 

  • Skin by DonnaJo Napoli (removed) 

  • Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez (removed) 

  • Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick (removed) 

  • Beautiful by Amy Reed (removed) 

  • Mrs. Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Graphic Novel by Ransom Riggs (removed) 

  • You: The Owner's Manual for Teens by Michael Roizen (removed) 

  • I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez (removed) 

  • In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak (removed) 

  • A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein (removed) 

  • The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater (removed) 

  • Blankets by Craig Thompson (removed) 

  • Squad by Maggie Tokuda-Hall (removed) 

  • Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (removed) 

  • Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon (removed) 

• Oak Ridge Schools (2025) 

  • 328 titles removed from school library to comply with Age-Appropriate Materials Act

• Monroe County School (2025) 

  • 574 books removed to comply with Age Appropriate Materials Act 

• Murfreesboro County Schools 

  • It Feels Good to Be Yourself (banned) 

• Rutherford County Schools 

  • 32 books removed Feb 2025 still looking for list of titles

  • Beloved (removed) 

  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower (removed) 

  • Wicked (removed) 

  • Skin & Bones (retained) 

  • Queen of Shadows (removed) 

  • Tower of Dawn (removed) 

  • Homegoing (removed) 

  • To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before (requires parental permission) 

• Knox County Schools 

  • Gender Queer (challenged) 

  • Fun Home (challenged) 

• Wilson County Schools 

  • In compliance with H.B. 843, 400 books have been removed from school libraries in Wilson County. (still looking for full list). 

State Bills & Legislation

• H.B. 843 

School Library Books 

• Brownsville ISD (2024) 

  • Jay's Gay Agenda (removed) 

  • It's Perfectly Normal (removed) 

  • Juliet Takes a Breath (removed) 

  • Flamer (removed) 

  • The Big Question Book of Sex and Consent (removed) 

• Canyon Independent School District 

  • The Bible (removed; attempt to comply with TX HB 900) 

• Conroe Independent School District (2024) 

  • Special Topics in Calamity Physics

  • Geography Club

  • Girls in Translation

  • American Girls

  • Twisted 

  • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (removed) 

• Cy-Fair Independent School District  (2024) 

• Denton Independent School District (2024) 

  • The grandmother of school students has initiated book challenges 

  • Books: Jacob's New Dress (retained), Jacob's Room to Choose (retained) 

• Fort Bend ISD

  • 30 books currently challenged 

• Fort Worth ISD

  • The Duff (retained) 

  • Infandous (retained) 

  • L8r G8r (retained) 

  • Like a Love Story (retained) 

  • This One Summer (retained) 

  • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (retained) 

  • Sold (retained) 

  • People Kill People (retained) 

  • Perfect (retained) 

  • I Never (retained) 

  • The Freedom Writers (retained) 

  • We Can't Be Friends: a True Story (retained) 

  • Smoke (retained) 

  • The Infinite Moment of Us (retained) 

  • Shine (retained) 

  • Yolk (retained) 

  • We Know It Was You (retained) 

  • Tricks (retained) 

  • Tilt (retained) 

  • Forbidden (retained) 

  • Empire of Storms: Throne of Glass (retained) 

  • Gender Queer (retained) 

  • The Handmaid's Tale: the graphic novel (retained) 

  • Living Dead Girl (retained) 

  • Trans Mission: my quest to a beard (retained) 

  • Wait, what?: a comic book guide to relationships, bodies, and growing up (retained) 

  • YOLO (retained) 

  • Sun and Her Flowers (retained) 

  • Boy Toy (retained) 

  • Chicken Girl (retained) 

  • Fallout (retained) 

  • Dime (retained) 

  • Kingdom of Ash: a throne of glass novel (retained) 

  • Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe (retained) 

  • The Carnival at Bray (retained) 

  • The You I've Never Known (retained) 

  • What Goes Around: A Hotlanta Novel (retained) 

  • Red Hood (retained) 

  • Traffick (retained) 

  • What Girls Are Made Of (retained) 

  • The Haters (retained) 

  • All Boys Aren't Blue (retained) 

  • All the Things We Do in the Dark (retained) 

  • Allegedly: a novel (retained) 

  • Almost Perfect (retained) 

  • Asking For It (retained) 

  • Burned (retained) 

  • Check Please! #Hockey (retained) 

  • CRANK (retained) 

  • Damsel (retained) 

  • Emergency Contact (retained) 

  • Firekeeper's Daughter (retained) 

  • Flamer (retained) 

  • Forever (retained) 

  • Grown: a novel (retained) 

  • Last Night at the Telegraph Club (retained) 

  • Looking for Alaska (retained) 

  • Oryx and Crake: a novel (retained) 

  • Out of Darkness (retained) 

  • Perfect Chemistry (retained) 

  • Slaughterhouse Five graphic novel (retained) 

  • Slaughterhouse Five (retained) 

  • Spinning (retained) 

  • The Bluest Eye (retained) 

  • The Grace Year (retained) 

  • The Misfits (retained) 

  • The Nerdy and the Dirty (retained) 

  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower (retained) 

  • The Poet X (retained) 

  • This is Kind of an Epic Love Story (retained) 

  • What We Saw (retained) 

  • Breathless (retained) 

  • Cut Both Ways (retained) 

  • Deal with it!: a whole new approach to your body, brain, and life as a girl (retained) 

  • Fade (retained) 

  • Glass (retained) 

  • Identical (retained) 

  • Impulse (retained) 

  • Juliet Takes a Breath (retained) 

  • Let's Talk about It: the Teen's Guide to Sex, Relationships, and being a human (retained) 

  • Life is funny: a novel (retained) 

  • Rumble (retained) 

  • Scars (retained) 

  • Skin (retained) 

  • The Dead Inside: a true story (retained) 

  • The Nowhere Girls (retained) 

  • The Pride Guide: a guide to sexual and social health (retained) 

  • The Squad. Killer Spirit (retained) 

  • Victoria and the Rogue (retained) 

  • Wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the west: a novel (retained)

  • Water for Elephants (retained)

  • Triangles: a novel (retained)

  • The you I've never known (retained)

  • The wind-up bird chronicle (retained)

  • The Immortalists (retained)

  • Push (retained)

  • Monstress Volumes: 1,2,3,4 (retained)

  • Milk and Honey (retained)

  • Lucky (retained)

  • Lawn Boy (retained)

  • Jesus Land: A Memoir (retained)

  • It Ends With Us (retained)

  • Forever for a Year (retained)

  • Finding me: a decade of darkness, a life reclaimed: a memoir of the Cleveland kidnappings (retained)

  • Blankets (retained)

  • American Gods (retained)

  • All Your Perfects (retained)

  • A Storm of Swords (retained)

  • A Stolen Life (retained)

  • A Game of Thrones (retained)

  • A Feast for Crows (retained)

  • A Dance with Dragons (retained)

  • A Court of Wings and Ruin (retained)

  • A Court of Thorns and Roses (retained)

  • A Court of Silver Flames (retained)

  • A Court of Mist and Fury (retained)

  • A Clash of Kings: book two of a song of ice and fire (retained)

• Georgetown ISD (2025) 

  • Water for Elephants (2025) 

  • Tokyo Ghoul (2025) 

  • Maybe Now (2025) 

  • The Testaments (2025) 

  • A Court of Thorns and Roses (2025) 

  • Born a Crime (2025) 

  • Wicked (2025) 

  • Klara and the Sun (2025) 

• Highland Park ISD (2024) 

  • All Boys Aren’t Blue (removed) 

  • The Witch Boy (challenged) 

  • Ho’Onani: Hula Warrior (challenged) 

• Katy ISD (2024, 2025) 

  • all books on "gender fluidity" 

  • Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (removed, 2024) 

  • A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (removed, 2024) 

  • Wicked by Gregory Maguire (removed, 2024) 

  • Do Animals Fall in Love? by Katharina von der Gathen (removed, 2024) 

  • The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (removed, 2024) 

  • A Stolen Life: a Memoir by Jaycee Dugard (removed, 2024) 

  • Infandous by Elana K. Arnold (removed, 2024) 

  • Only This Beautiful Moment by Abdi Nazemian (removed, 2024) 

  • The Carnival at Bray by Jessie Ann Foley (removed, 2024) 

  • Breathless by (unknown) (removed, 2024) 

  • Forever by Judy Blume (removed, 2024) 

  • Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (removed, 2024) 

  • Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas (removed, 2024) 

  • A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah. J Maas (removed, 2024) 

  • YOLO by I.J. Hidee (removed, 2024) 

  • I Never by Laura Hopper (removed, 2024) 

  • Mammal by Steve Parker (removed, 2024) 

  • A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin (removed, 2024) 

  • I: New and Selected Poems by Toi Derricotte (removed, 2024) 

  • Bum Rush the  Page: A Def poetry jam - anthology edited by Tony Medina and Louis Rivera (removed, 2024) 

  • The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (removed, 2024) 

  • Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (removed, 2024) 

  • The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (removed, 2024) 

  • Jesus Land: A Memoir by Julia Scheeres (removed, 2024) 

  • The Freedom Writer's Diary by Erin Gruwell and Freedom Writers (removed, 2024) 

  • Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo (removed, 2024) 

  • Lighter than my Shadow by Katie Green (removed, 2024) 

  • Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult (removed, 2024) 

  • Skin and Bones by Unknown/unspecified (removed, 2024) 

  • Sold by Patricia McCormick (removed, 2024) 

  • Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (removed, 2024) 

  • Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott (removed, 2024) 

  • Skin by Donna Jo Napoli (removed, 2024) 

  • Perfect by Ellen Hopkins (removed, 2024) 

• Lamar Independent School District (2024) 

  • all books about "gender fluidity" 

• McAllen ISD 

  • list of 676 books challenged 

• Mission CISD 

  • Agreed over email to remove library books 

• Princeton Independent School District 

  • 148 books flagged (looking for the full list) 

• Lake Travis ISD 

  • The Haters (banned) 

  • Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (challenged) 

State Bills & Legislation 

• HB 900 

State Bills & Legislation 

• HB29 -> would change process at public schools  across the state during book challenges

  • Compromise on the language of the bill 

• Banned from school libraries via state legislation 

  • Blankets by Craig Thompson 

  • A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas 

  • A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas 

  • A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas 

  • A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas 

  • A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas 

  • Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas 

  • Fallout by Ellen Hopkins

  • Forever by Judy Blume 

  • Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur 

  • Oryx & Crake by Margaret Atwood 

  • Tilt by Ellen Hopkins

  • What Girls Are Made Of by Elana K. Arnold 

  • Living Dead Girl (2025)

  • Damsel (2025) by Elana K. Arnold 

  • Like a Love Story (2025) by Abdi Nazemian 

  • Tricks (2025) by Ellen Hopkins 

  • Water for Elephants (2025) by Sara Gran