As adults try to pull books from school library shelves across the country, students are responding with book clubs centered on the challenged titles.
Graphic novel authors Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada, who wrote about Kim's experience in a banned book club in South Korea in the 1980s, now find their book relevant to U.S. students.
Recent censorship developments include a decision to keep the Bible in the library and classrooms at a Kansas high school, and the removal and review of the Epic! digital library app because of a concern over An ABC of Equality and other titles.
Nine titles to use with teens to teach writing, research, and more.
Office for Intellectual Freedom's Deborah Caldwell-Stone says the list of most challenged books in 2021 illustrates the efforts of organized organizations to exclude LGBTQIA and Black voices from school and public libraries.
The author of Home Home stresses the importance of openly discussing mental health issues and offering hope to young people experiencing anxiety and depression.
Is it unconstitutional to ban books from a school library? Pico didn't provide an easy answer, but the ACLU and a couple of Missouri students are suing arguing that the removal of books from the Wentzville R-IV district is a violation of their First Amendment rights.
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