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Cropped book cover "All Boys Aren't Blue." (Image: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr))

Banning, Burning Isn’t Enough: New Trend Shows Parents Suing Schools, Libraries Over Book Content

Book on fire. (Image: Movidagrafica on Pexels.) https://www.pexels.com/hu-hu/foto/1474931/

If Banning Wasn’t Enough, Two School Board Members Voice Support for Literal Book Burnings

Fahrenheit 451, Gender Queer, and 33 Snowfish.

2015 image of State Rep Matt Krause next to a ban hammer (literally) and a lasso showing a few of the 850 titles "under investigation." Titles include Handmaidens Tale, V is For Vendetta, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Felix Ever After, Cinderella is Dead, and Native Americans and the Question of Genocide. (Image: screencap from Texas Tribune, Top Png, and respective publishers of the books.)

Everything is Bigger in Texas, Even The Amount of Books “Under Review” by Texas Lawmakers

"A poop by any other name would still smell just as gross." -Romeo and Juliet, maybe?

Locked cell in front of a bookshelf. (Image: Alyssa Shotwell.)

Prison Censorship Should Be a Bigger Discussion in Banned Book Week

Banned Books Week Is About Censorship at Public-Funded Institutions, Not Your Local Target

There are real critiques of the event, but this ain't it.

School District Reverses Racist Book Ban in Win for Central York Student Protesters

Elmo talking with a Black child and parent at a park. (Image: Sesame Street/HBO.)

Students Fight Back as Schools, Parents Seek to Censor Even Malala, Sesame Street on Race

The kids are alright.

The Hate U Give #4 on most banned 2018

What Banned Books Tell Us About Literary Canon

Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger

School Bans Harry Potter Books Because They Contain “Actual Curses and Spells”

Apparently, it's 1999.

Mississippi School Pulls To Kill a Mockingbird Because it Makes Students “Uncomfortable”