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  • A child with a face mask on reading at a Scholastic book fair, with shelves of books out of focus in the background.

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  • Cover of Read Me a Story Stella by Marie-Louise Gay next to a locked up book

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  • Books lined up in a row on a library shelf, their spines facing away from the camera.

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  • A stack of books on a table in a school library.

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  • The logo for 'Freedom to Parent 21st Century Kids' from the Red Wine and Blue YouTube video of the same name.

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  • A stack of books chained and locked up

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  • LeVar Burton posing next to books for a book signing

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  • An empty school classroom

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  • A screenshot of a social media post from Missouri Republican state Sen. Nick Schroer showing Schroer and state Sen. Bill Eigel using flamethrowers on a stack of cardboard boxes.

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  • Collage of The Free People's Village, The Last Cuentista, Everything Sad Is Untrue, and Control Freaks.

    Award-Winning Indie Publisher Hosts Auction To Stay Open Amid Book Bans Targeting POC, LGBTQ+ Youth Lit

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  • A stack of books on a table in a school library.

    Texas Bookstores Are Fighting a Law That Targets Some of the Most Vulnerable Readers

    By Sep 6th
     
  • The cover of Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison

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  • A 2012 photo of the New York Public Library's Rose Main Reading Room.

    Bomb Threats at Libraries Are Becoming All Too Common

    By Sep 4th
     
  • The cover to 'Gender Queer' by Maia Kobabe.

    ‘Gender Queer’ Author Maia Kobabe Reflects on LGBTQ Book Bans for ‘The Nib’s Final Day

    By Sep 1st
     
  • A group of books with a chain around them, with a large padlock in the middle.

    15 People Got 172 Books Pulled From a Library Serving a Quarter Million Residents

    By Aug 30th
     
  • A pile of books, engulfed in flames.

    Conservatives in WA Force Vote To Dissolve Local Library Over LGBTQ Books

    By Aug 18th
     
  • A stack of books locked up in a jail cell

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    By Aug 17th
     
  • An elementary school library with prison bars superimposed over it.

    State of Texas Removing Dozens of Librarians & Turning School Libraries Into Disciplinary Halls

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  • A woman's figure is obscured sitting between library bookshelves.

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