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15,304 documented ban actions across the United States.
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11/22/63
by Stephen King — Duval County School District, FL
Challenger alleged the book 'violates state law' without specifying content concerns; reviewer cited FL HB 1069 / HB 1467 generally.
The Pact
by Jodi Picoult — Duval County School District, FL
Challenger alleged the book 'violates state law' without specifying content concerns; reviewer cited FL HB 1069 / HB 1467 generally.
Vanishing Acts
by Jodi Picoult — Duval County School District, FL
Challenger alleged the book 'violates state law' without specifying content concerns; reviewer cited FL HB 1069 / HB 1467 generally.
Just Shy of Ordinary
by Sass, A.J. — Rutherford County Library System, TN
Flagged on the Rutherford County Library System March 16, 2026 board meeting packet summary page with 'Age Appropriate Concerns' including mature themes about gender, LGBTQ content, sexual activities, sexual nudity, violence, profanity, and explicit alternate gender ideologies. The board vote cited compliance with the October 27, 2025 letter from Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett directing county libraries to review children's materials for age-appropriateness and comply with President Trump's executive order on 'defending women from gender ideology extremism'.
This Is Our Rainbow
by Katherine Locke — Rutherford County Library System, TN
Flagged on the Rutherford County Library System March 16, 2026 board meeting packet summary page with 'Age Appropriate Concerns' including mature themes about gender, LGBTQ content, sexual activities, sexual nudity, violence, profanity, and explicit alternate gender ideologies. The board vote cited compliance with the October 27, 2025 letter from Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett directing county libraries to review children's materials for age-appropriateness and comply with President Trump's executive order on 'defending women from gender ideology extremism'.
Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation
by Ari Folman — Rutherford County Library System, TN
Flagged on the Rutherford County Library System March 16, 2026 board meeting packet summary page with 'Age Appropriate Concerns' including mature themes about gender, LGBTQ content, sexual activities, sexual nudity, violence, profanity, and explicit alternate gender ideologies. The board vote cited compliance with the October 27, 2025 letter from Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett directing county libraries to review children's materials for age-appropriateness and comply with President Trump's executive order on 'defending women from gender ideology extremism'.
The Every Body Book
by Rachel E. Simon — Rutherford County Library System, TN
Flagged on the Rutherford County Library System March 16, 2026 board meeting packet summary page with 'Age Appropriate Concerns' including mature themes about gender, LGBTQ content, sexual activities, sexual nudity, violence, profanity, and explicit alternate gender ideologies. The board vote cited compliance with the October 27, 2025 letter from Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett directing county libraries to review children's materials for age-appropriateness and comply with President Trump's executive order on 'defending women from gender ideology extremism'.
Tell Me: What Children Want to Know About Bodies, Sex and Emotions
by Katharina von der Gathen — Rutherford County Library System, TN
Flagged on the Rutherford County Library System March 16, 2026 board meeting packet summary page with 'Age Appropriate Concerns' including mature themes about gender, LGBTQ content, sexual activities, sexual nudity, violence, profanity, and explicit alternate gender ideologies. The board vote cited compliance with the October 27, 2025 letter from Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett directing county libraries to review children's materials for age-appropriateness and comply with President Trump's executive order on 'defending women from gender ideology extremism'.
My Rainbow
by Trinity Neal — Rutherford County Library System, TN
Flagged on the Rutherford County Library System March 16, 2026 board meeting packet summary page with 'Age Appropriate Concerns' including mature themes about gender, LGBTQ content, sexual activities, sexual nudity, violence, profanity, and explicit alternate gender ideologies. The board vote cited compliance with the October 27, 2025 letter from Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett directing county libraries to review children's materials for age-appropriateness and comply with President Trump's executive order on 'defending women from gender ideology extremism'.
You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P!
by Alex Gino — Rutherford County Library System, TN
Flagged on the Rutherford County Library System March 16, 2026 board meeting packet summary page with 'Age Appropriate Concerns' including mature themes about gender, LGBTQ content, sexual activities, sexual nudity, violence, profanity, and explicit alternate gender ideologies. The board vote cited compliance with the October 27, 2025 letter from Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett directing county libraries to review children's materials for age-appropriateness and comply with President Trump's executive order on 'defending women from gender ideology extremism'.
Lily and Dunkin
by Donna Gephart — Rutherford County Library System, TN
Flagged on the Rutherford County Library System March 16, 2026 board meeting packet summary page with 'Age Appropriate Concerns' including mature themes about gender, LGBTQ content, sexual activities, sexual nudity, violence, profanity, and explicit alternate gender ideologies. The board vote cited compliance with the October 27, 2025 letter from Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett directing county libraries to review children's materials for age-appropriateness and comply with President Trump's executive order on 'defending women from gender ideology extremism'.
Let Me Play
by Deborah Blumenthal — Rutherford County Library System, TN
Flagged on the Rutherford County Library System March 16, 2026 board meeting packet summary page with 'Age Appropriate Concerns' including mature themes about gender, LGBTQ content, sexual activities, sexual nudity, violence, profanity, and explicit alternate gender ideologies. The board vote cited compliance with the October 27, 2025 letter from Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett directing county libraries to review children's materials for age-appropriateness and comply with President Trump's executive order on 'defending women from gender ideology extremism'.
Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World
by Ashley Herring Blake — Rutherford County Library System, TN
Flagged on the Rutherford County Library System March 16, 2026 board meeting packet summary page with 'Age Appropriate Concerns' including mature themes about gender, LGBTQ content, sexual activities, sexual nudity, violence, profanity, and explicit alternate gender ideologies. The board vote cited compliance with the October 27, 2025 letter from Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett directing county libraries to review children's materials for age-appropriateness and comply with President Trump's executive order on 'defending women from gender ideology extremism'.
It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity
by Theresa Thorn — Rutherford County Library System, TN
Flagged on the Rutherford County Library System March 16, 2026 board meeting packet summary page with 'Age Appropriate Concerns' including mature themes about gender, LGBTQ content, sexual activities, sexual nudity, violence, profanity, and explicit alternate gender ideologies. The board vote cited compliance with the October 27, 2025 letter from Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett directing county libraries to review children's materials for age-appropriateness and comply with President Trump's executive order on 'defending women from gender ideology extremism'.
Candidly Cline
by Kathryn Ormsbee — Rutherford County Library System, TN
Flagged on the Rutherford County Library System March 16, 2026 board meeting packet summary page with 'Age Appropriate Concerns' including mature themes about gender, LGBTQ content, sexual activities, sexual nudity, violence, profanity, and explicit alternate gender ideologies. The board vote cited compliance with the October 27, 2025 letter from Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett directing county libraries to review children's materials for age-appropriateness and comply with President Trump's executive order on 'defending women from gender ideology extremism'.
Camp Quiltbag
by Nicole Melleby — Rutherford County Library System, TN
Flagged on the Rutherford County Library System March 16, 2026 board meeting packet summary page with 'Age Appropriate Concerns' including mature themes about gender, LGBTQ content, sexual activities, sexual nudity, violence, profanity, and explicit alternate gender ideologies. The board vote cited compliance with the October 27, 2025 letter from Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett directing county libraries to review children's materials for age-appropriateness and comply with President Trump's executive order on 'defending women from gender ideology extremism'.
Bone
by Jeff Smith — Rutherford County Library System, TN
Flagged on the Rutherford County Library System March 16, 2026 board meeting packet summary page with 'Age Appropriate Concerns' including mature themes about gender, LGBTQ content, sexual activities, sexual nudity, violence, profanity, and explicit alternate gender ideologies. The board vote cited compliance with the October 27, 2025 letter from Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett directing county libraries to review children's materials for age-appropriateness and comply with President Trump's executive order on 'defending women from gender ideology extremism'.
Better Nate than Ever
by Tim Federle — Rutherford County Library System, TN
Flagged on the Rutherford County Library System March 16, 2026 board meeting packet summary page with 'Age Appropriate Concerns' including mature themes about gender, LGBTQ content, sexual activities, sexual nudity, violence, profanity, and explicit alternate gender ideologies. The board vote cited compliance with the October 27, 2025 letter from Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett directing county libraries to review children's materials for age-appropriateness and comply with President Trump's executive order on 'defending women from gender ideology extremism'.
I Am Malala Yousafzai
by Brad Meltzer — Rutherford County Library System, TN
Per the Rutherford County Library System March 16, 2026 board meeting packet summary page, the 'Age Appropriate Concerns' listed for this title were 'Violence -- not age appropriate'. The book is Brad Meltzer's picture-book biography of Malala Yousafzai from his Ordinary People Change the World series, which references the 2012 shooting of Yousafzai by the Taliban.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
by Stephen Chbosky — White Oak ISD, TX
vulgar and sexually explicit
The Carnival at Bray
by Jessie Ann Foley — Granite School District, UT
Removed as 'objective sensitive material' per Utah HB 0029 (2022); statewide prohibition triggered under Utah HB 0374 (2024).
Breathless
by Jennifer Niven — Granite School District, UT
Removed as 'objective sensitive material' per Utah HB 0029 (2022); statewide prohibition triggered under Utah HB 0374 (2024).
Breathless
by Jennifer Niven — Davis School District, UT
Removed as 'objective sensitive material' per Utah HB 0029 (2022); statewide prohibition triggered under Utah HB 0374 (2024).
The Carnival at Bray
by Jessie Ann Foley — Davis School District, UT
Removed as 'objective sensitive material' per Utah HB 0029 (2022); statewide prohibition triggered under Utah HB 0374 (2024).
The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel
by Margaret Atwood — Davis School District, UT
Removed as 'objective sensitive material' per Utah HB 0029 (2022); statewide prohibition triggered under Utah HB 0374 (2024).
Red Hood
by Elana K. Arnold — Davis School District, UT
Removed as 'objective sensitive material' per Utah HB 0029 (2022); statewide prohibition triggered under Utah HB 0374 (2024).
Red Hood
by Elana K. Arnold — Washington School District, UT
Removed as 'objective sensitive material' per Utah HB 0029 (2022); statewide prohibition triggered under Utah HB 0374 (2024).
The Carnival at Bray
by Jessie Ann Foley — Washington School District, UT
Removed as 'objective sensitive material' per Utah HB 0029 (2022); statewide prohibition triggered under Utah HB 0374 (2024).
Breathless
by Jennifer Niven — Washington School District, UT
Removed as 'objective sensitive material' per Utah HB 0029 (2022); statewide prohibition triggered under Utah HB 0374 (2024).
The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel
by Margaret Atwood — Washington School District, UT
Removed as 'objective sensitive material' per Utah HB 0029 (2022); statewide prohibition triggered under Utah HB 0374 (2024).
Looking for Alaska
by John Green — Davis School District, UT
Removed as 'objective sensitive material' per Utah HB 0029 (2022); statewide prohibition triggered under Utah HB 0374 (2024).
Looking for Alaska
by John Green — Tooele School District, UT
Removed as 'objective sensitive material' per Utah HB 0029 (2022); statewide prohibition triggered under Utah HB 0374 (2024).
Multiple books - The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel, Breathless, The Carnival at Bray, Red Hood
by Multiple authors - Margaret Atwood/Renée Nault, Jennifer Niven, Jessie Ann Foley, Elana K. Arnold — Utah (statewide)
Not specified in the article text provided
Looking for Alaska
by John Green — Washington School District, UT
Removed as 'objective sensitive material' per Utah HB 0029 (2022); statewide prohibition triggered under Utah HB 0374 (2024).
Red Hood
by Elana K. Arnold — Granite School District, UT
Removed as 'objective sensitive material' per Utah HB 0029 (2022); statewide prohibition triggered under Utah HB 0374 (2024).
The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel
by Margaret Atwood — Granite School District, UT
Removed as 'objective sensitive material' per Utah HB 0029 (2022); statewide prohibition triggered under Utah HB 0374 (2024).
Facts On File Visual Dictionary, The
by Jean-Claude Corbeil — Texas Department of Criminal Justice
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The Glass Castle
by Jeannette Walls — Abilene ISD, TX
Challenged as 'indecent content' and 'profane content' under TEC §33.020 (as amended by SB 13, 89th Legislature).
The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison — Abilene ISD, TX
Challenged as 'indecent content' and 'profane content' under TEC §33.020 (as amended by SB 13, 89th Legislature).
The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini — Abilene ISD, TX
Challenged as 'indecent content' and 'profane content' under TEC §33.020 (as amended by SB 13, 89th Legislature).
Sold
by Patricia McCormick — Abilene ISD, TX
Challenged as 'indecent content' and 'profane content' under TEC §33.020 (as amended by SB 13, 89th Legislature).
Crank
by Ellen Hopkins — Abilene ISD, TX
Challenged as 'indecent content' and 'profane content' under TEC §33.020 (as amended by SB 13, 89th Legislature).
The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold — Abilene ISD, TX
Challenged as 'indecent content' and 'profane content' under TEC §33.020 (as amended by SB 13, 89th Legislature).
The Haters
by Jesse Andrews — Abilene ISD, TX
Challenged as 'indecent content' and 'profane content' under TEC §33.020 (as amended by SB 13, 89th Legislature).
Speak
by Laurie Halse Anderson — Abilene ISD, TX
Challenged as 'indecent content' and 'profane content' under TEC §33.020 (as amended by SB 13, 89th Legislature).
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
by Erika L. Sánchez — Abilene ISD, TX
Challenged as 'indecent content' and 'profane content' under TEC §33.020 (as amended by SB 13, 89th Legislature).
The Poet X
by Elizabeth Acevedo — Abilene ISD, TX
Challenged as 'indecent content' and 'profane content' under TEC §33.020 (as amended by SB 13, 89th Legislature).
Nineteen Minutes
by Jodi Picoult — Abilene ISD, TX
Challenged as 'indecent content' and 'profane content' under TEC §33.020 (as amended by SB 13, 89th Legislature).
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
by John Green & David Levithan — Abilene ISD, TX
Challenged as 'indecent content' and 'profane content' under TEC §33.020 (as amended by SB 13, 89th Legislature).
Like a Love Story
by Abdi Nazemian — Abilene ISD, TX
Challenged as 'indecent content' and 'profane content' under TEC §33.020 (as amended by SB 13, 89th Legislature).