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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...