The recent surge in book bans in U.S. school districts and libraries is the latest front in a long-running battle that has swept up even literary masterpieces of John Steinbeck, J.D. Salinger and ...

The Texas law, and the legal battle to block it, reflect a new front in an ongoing culture ... While the fight has largely centered on books that are available in school classrooms and libraries ...

There they obtain a list of books believed to present a clear and present danger to young people. They bring that list to a meeting of the local school board. It turns out that 11 of the titles ...

His family wasn’t directly exposed to the books — Egger said he has lived in Front Royal 32 years and ... a conservative backlash against local school boards. Republicans also won control ...

PEN America’s annual report on book bans, released Thursday, revealed a significant ramp-up in the practice during the 2022–23 school year. Between July 1, 2022, and June 31, 2023, the ...

Keri Clark used to spend her days helping students discover books in the school library where she works in Jacksonville, Florida. As she saw it, her job as a librarian was to get as many books in ...

The school district’s decision to disregard ... finds herself on the front line of an unexpected battle” over book banning, reads the author’s online synopsis of the novel, which is aimed ...

In September, Rosenzweig and her colleagues at Scarsdale High School introduced “Off and Away for the Day,” an effort that encourages students to keep smartphones in their book bags during the ...