Lois Lowry Responds to a Young Reader Bothered By ‘Bad Things’ In Her Novel
"I love that child... she's the one I write for."
"I love that child... she's the one I write for."
The reasons a private school in Pennsylvania offered for not teaching 'Huck Finn' are precisely the reasons it should be taught.
A parent in Etiwanda, California is complaining that a celebrated children's book about tolerance and diversity is not "appropriate" for a kindergarten classroom.
A conservative legal group's threat to sue a school over the planned reading of a book about a transgender child is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of how the First Amendment applies to public schools.
An ad hoc committee in Idaho doesn't think high school seniors are ready to read The Namesake. The school board has an opportunity to reject this recommendation and protect the freedom to read.
A reconsideration review committee that met on December 3 decided in a 7-4 vote to retain copies of Gayle Foreman’s award-winning young adult novel Just One Day in Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public School libraries.
Parents of a middle school student were upset to find their child read the novel 'One Fine Day.' So they want it removed from four school libraries in the district.
One parent's complaint about a graphic novel has apparently led a school in North Carolina to remove it from the school library.
A conservative law firm threatened to sue a Wisconsin school over a reading and discussion of the picture book I Am Jazz. The district canceled the November 23 reading.
Two books targeted for removal from instruction at Rumson-Fair Haven High School have been retained.
For the second time in two months, a school has decided to remove Jonathan Safran Foer's highly regarded novel 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close' from a class reading list.
An ad hoc committee in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, is again targeting a piece of literature for its language. Are they going too far?
Banning a John Green novel didn't work out. But the superintendent's new idea to rate library books would create enormous problems.
A book fair won't carry a new Captain Underpants book, because one of the characters is gay.
A school drops a highly-acclaimed novel because of a few parents' complaints. That's bad. But their plan to label all books that have "adult content" will only invite more problems.
What's happening in the Garden State? Right after Banned Books Week, we saw two efforts to remove books from public schools.
Congratulations to the students, parents, and teachers in Lumberton, New Jersey, who have proven that grassroots action makes a difference.
A New Jersey superintendent made an ad hoc decision to pull Looking for Alaska from classroom libraries, in violation of district policy.
NCAC responds to a newspaper editorial arguing that removing books from a school because they offend one parent is "common sense."
A petition calls for the removal of two books for sexual content and language, and also all other material that is not age-appropriate.
NCAC Executive Director Joan Bertin talks about the importance of picture books and how they can attract challenges over their content.
Responding to a complaint about a book assignment, a Tennessee charter school CEO explained that they had given students a heavily redacted version.
In the spirit of Banned Books Week, we bring you five stories from the field. A few of them will make shake your head, while the others will have you pumping your fist.
Four months after a parent launched a challenge against The Kite Runner in Asheville, NC, the saga seems to finally have come to an end.
One parent wants an award-winning medical history book removed from a school district. The author says she has "confused gynecology with pornography."
Telling students to avoid books containing "wayward beliefs" implies we are incapable of thinking for ourselves. The removal did not give parents the freedom to parent, but instead attacked freedom of thought.
Can a trustee be trusted when he has tried to censor in the past? Residents of Downers Grove were asking that questions when the mayor nominated Arthur Jaros, Jr. to the village’s Library Board.
Are Americans really embracing book banning? A new poll seems to say so. But there are some important caveats.
A Florida high school selected an award-winning novel for its school-wide summer reading list. But a few parents objected to some of the language in the book, and it was promptly pulled.
One parent called an award-winning young adult novel "smut"-- and her complaint was enough to have it removed from a summer reading list for honors students.
Parents in Florida are upset that third graders will be reading books they say promote Islam.
At a public hearing over whether or not to remove LGBT children's books from a public library, one mom's comments stole the show.
Would-be censors in Texas lose in their effort to remove LGBT children's books from the public library. But the fight in Hood County may be far from over.
A graphic novel was challenged in a New Mexico high school. A review committee voted to keep it. So why isn't the book on the shelves? A local reporter dug into the story.
Residents of one Texas town want two LGBT books removed from the children's section of a public library. That is unconstitutional. But a plan to move the books to the adult section is similarly problematic.
After protests from NCAC and other groups, a California college won't be adding a 'trigger warning' to the description of an English course.
The Buncombe school district has decided--once and for all--that one parent's objection to the novel The Kite Runner shouldn't prevent other students from reading it.
A California college rejected a student's request to remove four books from an English course. That's good. But the school is considering adding a 'disclaimer' to the course.
A North Carolina district should stick to its policy guidelines and keep The Kite Runner in an honors English class.
Has the governor of North Carolina nominated a book censor to the state Board of Education?