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One of Doug Stanton's nonfiction historical works showed up last year on a list of books being considered for banning, and all he could do was wonder why — a question that still isn't answered ...
The State Board of Education has required public schools to pull 21 books from library shelves since a regulation on "sexual conduct" took effect last summer. (Catherine McQueen/Getty Images ...
PW spoke with the co-founder of WNDB about the group’s beginnings, its accomplishments, the impact of book bans, and what ...
Last year, the Texas legislature passed HB 900, a law that would have forced booksellers and publishers to implement a system to rate the sexual content for any books sold to Texas school libraries.
Now, these book banners say they only want to protect children from sexual content or bodily functions — and, yes, some children's books deal with issues for a different world these days ...
PEOPLE OF THE BOOK by David Stacton. 381 pages. Putnam. $5.95. “It was a model of the world, with the roof taken off and the streets torn up,” is Author ... reverse of a banner dragged across ...
The books were removed from libraries in August ... More important, note how many “parents groups” lined up behind the book banners. The letter was sent on behalf of several organizations ...
Thanks to Scott Maxwell for calling out book banners who never read the books (“Flori-duh: ‘Florida school board bans book about book bans,” June 16). But I doubt that even reading would ...
All three, said Marquardt, will object to being labeled book-banners, because outright banning ... excellent "Nineteen Minutes" by bestselling author Jodi Picoult. It's about a school shooting ...
Rubin: Alleged book-banners take over Lapeer library as director ... Maybe, despite the attacks on books and the people who shelve them, there's hope. In Alpena County, voters approved a library ...