Book challenges nearly tripled in the 2023-2024 school year nationwide. Texas is among the states with the most restrictions ...
Books are increasingly being banned that depict topics young people confront in the real world: substance abuse, suicide, depression and mental health concerns and sexual violence,” PEN America ...
The Florida Department of Education released a list of more than 700 books that were pulled from school shelves. during the ...
According to PEN America, there were 10,046 instances of book bans or challenges last school year. Jodi Picoult’s “Nineteen Minutes” was the most banned book in America last school year.
America is facing a book-banning crisis. Conservative politicians are silencing Black, Brown and LGBTQIA+ voices by forcing librarians to take their books off the shelf. In 2023 alone, 3,059 books ...
Jodi Picoult remembers when everyone seemed to praise her novel “Nineteen Minutes," a 2007 bestseller about a school shooting ...
The report is the latest in PEN America’s Banned in the USA series since its inception in 2021. Over the last three years, the organization has counted close to 16,000 instances of book bans in ...
More than 700 books were removed from Florida school library shelves for the 2023-24 school year, according to the state ...