According to PEN America, there were 10,046 instances of book bans or challenges last school year. Jodi Picoult’s “Nineteen Minutes” was the most banned book in America last school year.

In the 2023-2024 school year, according to the state, the author with the most books pulled from shelves ... “There are no books banned in Florida, and sexually explicit materials do not belong ...

Nor was it any authors of other perennial book-challenger targets such as "Slaughterhouse Five" by Kurt Vonnegut, Anne Frank’s "Diary of a Young Girl" or "Gender Queer" by Maia Kobabe. In the ...

There I learned most of the well-loved books that lived for years on our children’s bookshelf were among those banned or selected for cautionary labels ... I also wanted them to have a cultural ...

Acclaimed classic “The Handmaid’s Tale” is one of the most-removed books in Florida ... “There are no books banned in Florida, and sexually explicit materials do not belong in schools ...