Banned Books Week highlights efforts to limit access to books, but the debate often results in people talking past, not to, one another.

These anthologies are specifically created to teach reading, and generally feature excerpts from fiction and nonfiction books ...

In 2022, she spoke at a local public library hearing about a challenge to remove a book about teen puberty, sexuality and consent from the shelves. She showed up with other community members to argue ...

10/6: Updated to include a comment from the president of TCU's Turning Point USA chapter. An activist said Texas Christian University blocked her from speaking on campus, arguing the school is ...

JTA — A school district in central Texas has removed “The Devil’s Arithmetic,” a classic young-adult novel dealing with the Holocaust, after reviewing books for material that could violate a new state ...

Escambia County did not violate students’ First Amendment rights in keeping from them a book about two male penguins raising a chick together, a federal judge found this week. In a suit between the ...

Stephen King has become the most banned author in U.S. schools, according to PEN America’s 2024–2025 report. Over 6,800 books were removed, primarily in Florida, Texas, and Tennessee, often as ...

Florida is No. 1 for book removals and restrictions in public schools for the third year in a row, according to a new report released Wednesday by the national free expression group PEN America. PEN ...

PEN America’s annual report on banned books shows more than 6,800 instances of books being temporarily or permanently removed for the 2024-2025 school year. Three states account for 80% of those bans.

PEN America released its list of the most-banned books of the 2024-2025 school year on Wednesday – and warned that the number of books challenged or banned in public school districts across the ...

A new report says that the number of books being challenged or removed from public schools across the country has risen exponentially in the past two years. A Clockwork Orange tops their list. PEN ...