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All Boys Aren't Blue. #3 Top Ten Most Challenged Book of 2021

All Boys Aren’t Blue, a 2021 Top Ten Title

In a powerful memoir and manifesto, George M. Johnson’s All Boys Aren’t Blue has made waves since the book’s publication in 2020. With its accolades keeping pace with the number of states Johnson’s book has been challenged in, All Boys Aren’t Blue is a captivating, personal narrative told for those who have been erased—and continue to face erasure.

April 27, 2022April 27, 2022 Nia Thimakis Authors, Banned and Challenged Books
Top Ten Banned Books - Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez

Top Ten Banned Books – Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez

Part love story, part historical exploration of a small town in 1930s Texas, the award winning and highly acclaimed YA novel Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez was originally banned in two middles schools after a now viral moment in which a parent angrily quoted from a passage that references anal sex.

April 6, 2022September 19, 2022 Michael Kirby Banned and Challenged Books
Censorship by the numbers 2019

Twelve Terrific Challenged LGBTQIAP+ Titles for Kids and Teens

By: guest contributor Brian E. Wilson, ALSC Liaison for the ALA Committee on Professional Ethics. In honor of Pride Month and ALA’s Rainbow Book Month, here is a list of Twelve Terrific Books that have ended up on the Top Ten Most Challenged Books list during the past decade.

June 22, 2020June 29, 2020 ALA Committee on Professional Ethics Banned and Challenged Books, LGBTQIA+
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Share Your Censorship Story

OIF’s end-of-year initiative encourages you to share your censorship story! Information from challenge reports helps spread awareness and support libraries across the nation.

December 19, 2019December 19, 2019 Kelly Bilz Censorship, Challenge Reporting

#7: Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

By: Ken Sawdon  Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel was number 7 on the list of top ten most challenged books of 2015. It was most often challenged […]

May 26, 2016May 31, 2016 Kenneth Sawdon Banned and Challenged Books, Censorship
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The latest (anonymous) complaint

To whom it may concern:

This is an official protest to register a complaint against any and all Koran’s [sic], because of this books [sic] vile content, we recommend that it no longer be allowed in any Public School of Library anywhere throughout the entire United States.

April 21, 2016April 20, 2016 Jamie LaRue ALA Top Ten Most Frequently Challenged Books
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Intellectual Freedom News

March 23, 2016 – Intellectual Freedom News is a compilation of news delivered by the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom including current book challenges in libraries and schools and articles about privacy, internet filtering and censorship

March 25, 2016 Kristin Pekoll Choose Privacy Week, Committee on Professional Ethics (COPE), Freedom to Read Foundation, Intellectual Freedom News
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