Based on a complaint from one parent, the principal of West Ashley High School in Charleston, South Carolina has removed Courtney Summers’ novel Some Girls Are as an option on a summer reading list for freshman Honors English. Although Charleston…
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The Tweeks Challenge Parents and Kids to Read Bone
Brunswick County Shuts Down Repeat Challenge to Absolutely True Diary
Victory by default in Brunswick County, NC! About a week after local resident Frankie Wood challenged Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian at the second school in as many years, the principal informed her that the…
Author Responds to Connecticut Ban of The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Wallingford Superintendent Refuses to Back Down on Perks Ban
The superintendent of schools in Wallingford, Connecticut, is doubling down on his decision to overrule a review committee’s recommendation and remove Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower from the district’s curriculum. After receiving local and national criticism for…
CBLDF Joins Growing Opposition to Perks of Being a Wallflower Ban
Following last week’s news that the Superintendent of Schools in Wallingford, CT had removed Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower from the curriculum despite a review committee recommendation to keep it, CBLDF has joined with five other members…
Perks of Being a Wallflower Removed from Wallingford, CT Curriculum
Looking for Alaska Retained in Waukesha, Two More Books Challenged
We have another good news/bad news situation in Waukesha, Wisconsin, where a school district review committee last week unanimously rejected a parental challenge to John Green’s Looking for Alaska. But the challengers plan to appeal that decision to the full…