Oct 21, 2022 02:05 Michigan library could close after town votes to defund it over LGBTQ-themed books Book banning in libraries and schools is gaining momentum across the country. Oct 5, 2022 1,648 books were banned in U.S. school districts in one year Between July 2021 and June...
The most challenged books in 2022 were “Gender Queer: A Memoir”by Maia Kobabe, “All Boys Aren’t Blue”by George M. Johnson and “The Bluest Eye”by Nobel Prize–winning novelist Toni Morrison. These are the 10 states with the most books banned or challenged at local levels, as meas...
These books vary in content and narration, but share the fact that they are in peril. Many of the books targeted feature Black or LGBTQ characters. Examples includeGender Queerby Maia Kobabe, a memoir about adolescence and gender identity,banned and challengedin schools in Florida, Rhode Island...
In one case in 2005, police arrested four fountain cleaners after they were spotted slipping coins into their own pockets after collecting them. (25) Authorities finally caught one notorious thief named Thomas Morgan and banned him from the fountain after he fished out thousands of dollars in cha...
Banned BooksHundreds of books pulled from Florida school libraries A 35-page list outlines the hundreds of books removed from library shelves in Florida's 73 school districts. Nov 13 San Francisco bookstore pushes back on book bans A wave of anti-LGBTQ legislation and book bannings in ...
Between July and December 2022, instances of individual book bans occurred in 66 school districts in 21 states with bans most prevalent in Texas, Florida, Missouri, Utah and South Carolina. Reading and advocating for banned books is one of the ways you can resist the attacks on teaching truth...
Between July and December 2022, instances of individual book bans occurred in 66 school districts in 21 states with bans most prevalent in Texas, Florida, Missouri, Utah and South Carolina. Reading and advocating for banned books is one of the ways you can resist the attacks on teaching truth...
Revisiting some books I shared with my children has been a source of comfort and delight: Freddy Goes to Florida (Walter Brooks; 1927), Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (J.K. Rowling; 1997 and 1998). Other fiction read during this period...
Manuela Azul has been crammed into an existence that feels too small for her. As an undocumented immigrant who’s on the run from her father’s Argentine crime-family, Manu is confined to a small apartment and a small life in Miami, Florida. ...
Suzanne Allain is a screenwriter who lived in New York and Beijing before returning to her hometown of Tallahassee, Florida, where she lives with her husband. Suzanne adapted her novel Mr. Malcolm’s List into a screenplay and it was made into a movie starring Freida Pinto, Theo James, Ṣ...