97 Banned books in schools in a small town in South Carolina
- Joy Lahman
- Mar 24, 2024
- 5 min read
Books are where you can go away for the hustle and bustle of everyday life. You can escape into your favorite author or favorite genre of book. I can understand that parents are protecting their kids. When does that protection dictate how other parents parent their kids?
I can see protecting them in elementary school and protecting them somewhat in middle/junior high. Now, in high school, you think that they have some common sense of what or what not to read. Middle/junior high children may or may not have some questions about how the world works. I think that the parents would trust their kids.
Now a town in South Carolina has different ideas about these specific books. Moms for Liberty volunteers rate on the site from 0-5 using BookLooks standards including "explicit sexual nudity and gender ideologies. Ok, I can get elementary and middle/junior schoolers. I get that.
Now Moms for Liberty has filed a lawsuit on these books. The books are:
"A Lesson in Vengeance" by Victoria Lee - returned to high school shelves
"All Boys Aren't Blue" by George M. Johnson- returned to high school shelves
"All the Things We Do in the Dark" by Saundra Mitchell - returned for all levels
"Almost Perfect" by Brian Katcher - returned to high school shelves
"Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King - returned for grades 6-12
"Beautiful" by Amy Reed - banned
"Boy Girl Boy" by Ron Koertge - returned for all levels
"Breathless" by Jennifer Niven - was not reviewed because there were never any copies in school libraries.
"Burned" by Ellen Hopkins - returned to high school shelves
"City of Heavenly Fire" by Cassandra Clare - returned for grades 6-12
"Clockwork Princess" by Cassandra Clare - returned to high school shelves
"Collateral" by Ellen Hopkins - returned to high school shelves
"Confess: A Novel" by Colleen Hoover - returned to high school shelves
"Cool for the Summer" by Dahlia Adler - returned for all levels
"Court of Frost and Starlight" by Sarah Maas - returned to high school shelves
"Court of Mist and Fury" by Sarah Maas - returned to high school shelves
"Court of Thorns and Roses" by Sarah Maas returned to high school shelves
"Court of Wings and Ruin" by Sarah Maas - returned to high school shelves
"Crank" by Ellen Hopkins - returned to high school shelves
"Damsel" by Elana Arnold - returned for grades 6-12
"Eleanor and Park" by Rainbow Rowell - returned to high school shelves
"Empire of Storms" by Sarah Maas - returned to high school shelves
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer - returned to high school shelves
"Fade" by Lisa McMann - returned to high school shelves
"Fallout" by Ellen Hopkins- returned for all levels
"Felix Ever After" by Kacen Callender - returned to high school shelves
"Flamer" by Mike Curato - returned to high school shelves
"Forever for a Year" by B.T. Gottfred - banned
"Foul is Fair" by Hannah Capin - returned to high school shelves
"Gabi, A Girl in Pieces" by Isabel Quintero - returned for all levels
"Glass" by Ellen Hopkins - returned to high school shelves
"Go Ask Alice" by Anonymous - returned to high school shelves
"Grit" by Gillian French - returned to high school shelves
"Grl2grl" by Julie Anne Peters - returned for all levels
"Grown" by Tiffany D. Jackson - returned for grades 6-12
"Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - returned for grades 6-12
"Hopeless" by Colleen Hoover - returned to high school shelves
"I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sanchez - returned to high school shelves
"I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson - returned for grades 6-12
"Identical" by Ellen Hopkins - returned to high school shelves
"Impulse" by Ellen Hopkins - returned to high school shelves
"It Ends With Us" by Colleen Hoover - banned
"Kingdom of Ash" by Sarah Maas - returned to high school shelves
"Last Night at the Telegraph Club" by Malinda Lo - returned to high school shelves
"Layla" by Colleen Hoover - returned for all levels
"Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli - returned for grades 6-12
"Living Dead Girl" by Elizabeth Scott - returned to high school shelves
"Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov - returned to high school shelves
"Looking for Alaska" by John Green - returned to high school shelves
"Lucky" by Alice Sebold - returned to high school shelves
"Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" by Jesse Andrews - returned to high school shelves
"Milk and Honey" by Rupi Kaur - returned to high school shelves
"Monday's Not Coming" by Tiffany D. Jackson - returned for grades 6-12
"Happier Than Not" by Adam Silvera - returned to high school shelves
"Nineteen Minutes" by Jodi Picoult - banned
"November 9" by Colleen Hoover - returned to high school shelves
"Oryx and Crake" by Margaret Atwood - returned to high school shelves
"Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Perez - returned for all levels
"Perfect" by Ellen Hopkins - returned to high school shelves
"Push" by Sapphire - returned to high school shelves
"Ramona Blue" by Julie Murphy - returned to high school shelves
"Red at the Bone" by Jacqueline Woodson - returned to high school shelves
"Rumble" by Ellen Hopkins - returned to high school shelves
"Scars" by Cheryl Rainfield - returned for grades 6-12
"Shine" by Lauren Myracle - returned for grades 6-12
"Skin" by Donna Jo Napoli - returned to high school shelves
"Smoke" by Ellen Hopkins - returned to high school shelves
"Sold" by Patricia McCormick - returned for grades 6-12
"Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson - returned for all levels
"Stamped" (AD, YA, YD, and for Kids versions) by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds returned for grades 6-12
"The Art of Racing in the Rain" by Garth Stein - returned for all levels
"The Black Flamingo" by Dean Atta - returned for all levels
"The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison - returned to high school shelves
"The Carnival at Bray" by Jessie Ann Foley returned to high school shelves
"The Duff" by Kody Keplinger - returned for all levels
"The Female of the Species" by Mindy McGinnis - returned to high school shelves
"The Fixer" by Bernard Malamud - returned for all levels
"The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers, with Erin Gruwell - returned for grades 6-12
"The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood - returned for all levels
"The Haters" by Jesse Andrews - banned
"The Infinite Moment of Us" by Lauren Myracle - returned to high school shelves
"The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini - returned to high school shelves
"The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold - returned for grades 6-12
"The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky - returned to high school shelves
"The Poet X" by Elizabeth Acevedo - returned to high school shelves
"The Truth About Alice" by Jennifer Mathieu - returned to high school shelves
"The Upside of Unrequited" by Becky Albertalli - returned to high school shelves
"The You I've Never Known" by Ellen Hopkins returned to high school shelves
"Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher - returned for all levels
"This One Summer" by Mariko Tamaki - returned to high school shelves
"Tilt" by Ellen Hopkins - returned to high school shelves
"Tower of Dawn" by Sarah Maas - returned to high school shelves
"Tricks" by Ellen Hopkins - returned to high school shelves
"Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen - returned for all levels
"Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson - returned for grades 6-12
"Yolk" by Mary H. K. Choi - returned to high school shelves
"YOLO" by Lauren Myracle - returned for all levels
If want to know more about Moms for Liberty go to Moms for Liberty or if you want to check a book go to Book Looks . I don't agree with them. I am NOT a parent. I can not tell you what to do.
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