"Turning the Page on Banned Books." PEN America, 2024. pen.org. Accessed 23 Sept. 2024.
"Today, state legislators are introducing — and in some cases passing — educational gag orders to censor teachers, proposals to track and monitor teachers, and mechanisms to facilitate book banning in school districts. At the same time, the scale and force of book banning in local communities is escalating dramatically. In recent years PEN America has typically encountered a handful of such cases each year. The findings in this report demonstrate a profound increase in both the number of books."
- PEN America
Banned Book Awareness
"Book Bans." Films Media Group, 2023. Films On Demand. Accessed 10 Oct. 2023.
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Challenged Books
Gallery
The Bluest Eye
Third on the 2022 Most Challenged Books.
Number of challenges: 73
Challenged for: depiction of sexual abuse, EDI content, claimed to be sexually explicit.
Source: American Library Association, 2023
