97 Banned books in schools in a small town in South Carolina
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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