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Book Résumé Victoria Lee: (Fiction, Young Adult) Report Censorship

Jun 14, 2024 - A new free resource to support librarians, educators, parents, students, and other community advocates in their efforts to keep frequently challenged books on...

Oct 28, 2025 - Escambia County in Florida has removed or challenged at least 160 books in every single one of its 69 schools. There are traditional classics,

Sep 17, 2025 - For Banned Book Week, PEN America interviews Ashley Hope Pérez, author of Out of Darkness, which has been banned 23 times in the 2021-2022 school year.

Nov 6, 2024 - Book Résumé George R. R. Martin: The kingdom of the royal Stark family faces its ultimate challenge in the onset of a generation-long winter, the poisonous...

A scholar compares the debates over banning books in school today to a similar clash of ideas that took place during the Reagan era.

The last two years have seen book bans come roaring back into the public consciousness.

Jul 5, 2024 - Teaching for Change executive director Deborah Menkart was interviewed for this story in USA Today by Deborah Barfield Berry about the resistance to book bans....

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Feb 17, 2026 - The horror was added this month to Utah's growing list of prohibited titles.

Nov 6, 2024 - Book Résumé Nick Bruel: After destroying all of the gifts and decorations at home, Bad Kitty escapes from the car on Christmas Eve and finds a new friend, who...

Nov 6, 2024 - Book Résumé Ellen Hopkins: Tricks is a young adult verse novel by Ellen Hopkins, released in August 2009. It tells the converging narratives of five troubled...

Apr 16, 2025 - It's up to all of us to stay alert when book ban efforts come to our communities, and reporting censorship is critical.

Feb 16, 2024 - What Are Book Résumés? Book résumés are free resources that help teachers, librarians, parents, and community advocates support access when others demand that...

Jan 30, 2026 - As new censorship tactics emerge, Unite is evolving to meet the needs of advocates, guided by feedback from our organizational partners. Learn more about what...

Mar 8, 2022 - Join Group Last active: 4 years ago 24 members 15 posts Ban Book Bans Public Group Christie Goodman Advocates of all ages are fighting against book bans and...

Nov 13, 2025 - New policies have helped keep Wake County libraries resilient against censorship, but book challenges continue to have a chilling effect.

Nov 6, 2024 - Book Résumé Lorraine Hansberry: A play about a struggling black family living on Chicago’s South Side and the impact of an unexpected insurance bequest. Each...

Dec 3, 2025 - Indie bookstores fight book bans! ABA’s free “Right to Read Toolkit” provides a roadmap to empower booksellers and readers everywhere.

Jul 22, 2025 - Librarians, educators, and authors—including Laurie Halse Anderson—explored a thought-provoking exhibit on the impact of book bans and shared personal...

The “New Kid” author said he was “stunned” to hear his book was being challenged in Texas.

Jun 14, 2024 - A new free resource to support librarians, educators, parents, students, and other community advocates in their efforts to keep frequently challenged books on...

Nov 6, 2024 - Book Résumé Victoria E. Schwab: Londons fall and kingdoms rise while darkness sweeps the Maresh Empire, and the fraught balance of magic blossoms into...

Even as we need to keep telling the painful truth of book bans, we also need to take extra care to celebrate and elevate the unique gifts that each book offers.

Nov 6, 2024 - Book Résumé George R. R. Martin: A medieval fantasy on the land of the Seven Kingdoms, chronicling the intrigues of its ruling families as they jockey for...

Book Résumé Robert Newton Peck: To a thirteen-year-old Vermont farm boy whose father slaughters pigs for a living, maturity comes early as he learns “doing...

Jun 14, 2024 - A new free resource to support librarians, educators, parents, students, and other community advocates in their efforts to keep frequently challenged books on...

Dec 9, 2024 - “In the face of rising censorship, we must confront the tyranny of those who seek to silence the voices of dissent and truth. Through book bans, authorities...

Feb 9, 2026 - A book club in Loveland, Colorado made a memorial gift to UABB and reads banned books together, in memory of freedom to read advocate, Susan Wolber.

Jul 31, 2024 - Associations with Moms for Liberty questioned at event, as two candidates were donated to by the group that's known for endorsing book bans.

Nov 6, 2024 - Book Résumé Khaled Hosseini: A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan’s last thirty years-from the...

Book Résumé Robin Gow: Two seventeen-year-old trans boys in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, struggling to understand themselves and their love for each other, are...

Oct 3, 2025 - Unite Against Book Bans empowers people everywhere to stand together in the fight against censorship. Learn more about the campaign.

Nov 5, 2025 - Sara Paretsky, trailblazing author and Unite Against Book Bans supporter, shares inspiration and advice on fighting censorship.

Feb 19, 2026 - On such law in Idaho is being challenged in court and could have wide implications.

Jul 10, 2025 - Book Résumé Malinda Lo: When Chinese American teenager Jess Wong’s best friend Angie falls in love with a girl from the nearby boarding school, Jess expects...

Dec 4, 2024 - This report offers a snapshot of book bans in school libraries and classrooms in the United States from July 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022.

Jan 23, 2026 - AABB analyzed 2025 school board races in districts with censorship histories. The results provide a heartening snapshot of support for free speech.

Dec 15, 2025 - We should trust individuals to make their own decisions. Raise your voice for everyone's freedom to read. #UniteAgainstBookBans

Book Résumé Sarah Pinborough : Mean Girls for the Instagram age.”–The Times (London) The New York Times bestselling author known for her thrilling twists is...

Nov 1, 2023 - Colin Williams Clashes around censorship have pitted parents against educators, and against each other, while outside funding raises the stakes. This article...

Nov 6, 2024 - Book Résumé Bethany C. Morrow: In a society determined to keep her under lock and key, Tavia must hide her siren powers. Meanwhile, Effie is fighting her own...

Mychal Threets is opening up about book banning in an exclusive interview with PEOPLE for his debut kids book 'I'm So Happy You're Here.' The...

A broad civil society coalition is sounding the alarm on Big Tech and Big Publishing’s unchecked power over digital books—and surveillance of those who...

Nov 6, 2024 - Book Résumé Heather Smith: Lou spends every Saturday with Grandad and Pops. They walk to the library hand in hand, like a chain of paper dolls. Grandad reads...

Nov 26, 2025 - Newsletter 125. When it’s time to change jobs, how AI destroys the writer-reader relationship, an AI-powered romance bookstore, plus three people to...

As schools get thrust into the center of the divisive culture wars, a new survey shows a larger share of Americans support an expansion of classroom discussion...

Jun 14, 2024 - A new free resource to support librarians, educators, parents, students, and other community advocates in their efforts to keep frequently challenged books on...

Nov 6, 2024 - Book Résumé Maia Kobabe: In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic...

Jan 22, 2026 - How can you and your community unite against book bans? We've put together this action toolkit to help you get started.

Apr 7, 2025 - The American Library Association released record-shattering new data and statistics of book bans in the United States.

Nov 6, 2024 - Book Résumé Ellen Hopkins: Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter, gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her...

Sep 16, 2024 - Unite your community against book bans with these actions and free resources.

Dec 7, 2023 - We should trust individuals to make their own decisions. Raise your voice for everyone's freedom to read. #UniteAgainstBookBans

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Sep 28, 2023 - Book bans have become commonplace in every state over the past two years. Bans on books with LGBTQ+ characters and storylines that tackle tough topics like sexu

Nov 6, 2024 - Book Résumé Jesse Andrews: Greg Gaines is the last master of high school espionage, able to disappear at will into any social environment. He has only one...

The Information Ministry’s “blacklist” has expanded to 110 titles.

A study of more than 1,600 books suggests that book ban advocates may not look past the cover art.

Jun 14, 2024 - A new free resource to support librarians, educators, parents, students, and other community advocates in their efforts to keep frequently challenged books on...

Nov 6, 2024 - Book Résumé Mike Curato: “It’s the summer between middle school and high school, and Aiden Navarro is away at camp. Everyone’s going through changes–but for...

Nov 6, 2024 - Book Résumé Stephen Chbosky: A coming of age novel about Charlie, a freshman in high school who is a wallflower, shy and introspective, and very intelligent....

Oct 11, 2025 - On October 11, take one action to defend books from censorship and take a stand for library staff, educators, writers, publishers and booksellers!

Sep 21, 2023 - The number of bans and restrictions in the U.S. rose 33% in the last school year, according the the report. Florida had more bans than any other state.

Nov 6, 2024 - Book Résumé Toni Morrison: Eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, an African-American girl in an America whose love for blonde, blue-eyed children can devastate all...